Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardoˈvintʃi] ; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 April 1452
CityVinci, Italy
CountryItaly
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives...
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.