Leonardo da Vinci

(1452–1519) · Italian Artist & Inventor

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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Leonardo da Vinci

(1452–1519) · Italian Artist & Inventor

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
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.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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