Q - Leonardo da Vinci
Posted on 22nd January 2021
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci 1452 – 1519 was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor. His interests also extended to many other areas including architecture, mathematics and science, invention and engineering, geology, botany and astronomy, cartography (map making) and history.
He is considered a true genius whose curiosity and thirst for knowledge knew no bounds.
‘It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end’
‘Time stays long enough for those who use it’
‘While I thought that was learning how to live; I have been learning how to die’
‘Art is never finished, only abandoned’
‘Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence’
‘Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake’
‘Wisdom is the daughter of experience’
‘As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death’
‘The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions’
‘There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see’
‘Tears come from the heart and not from the brain’
‘All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions’
‘Learning never exhausts the mind’
‘The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding’
‘The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of’
‘Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art’
‘Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel’
‘Life without love, is no life at all’
‘Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen’
‘It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things’
‘Realise that everything connects to everything else’
‘He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year’
‘Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master’
‘Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active’
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