Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
It had 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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
