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
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.