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
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
My body is not a tomb for animals.