Quotes About Leonardo

Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.

Whatever— the soup is getting cold. [Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, 1518]

The search for truth and the desire for beauty were the twin ideals he strove to attain. The keenness of this pursuit saved him from the blemish of egoism which aloofness from his surroundings would otherwise have forced upon him.

C? s? pot s? înÅ£eleg,m-am distrus.A înÅ£elege înseamn? a uita s? mai iubeÅŸti.Nu cunosc nimic mai fals ÅŸi mai semnificativ în spusa lui Leonardo da Vinci cum c? nu poÅ£i iubi sau urî un lucru dup? ce l-ai înÅ£eles.

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

Deborah Harry: Giorgio was great. He's a funny personality. In a way, he's a scientist. A bit like Leonardo da Vinci, he's this multilayered artist, a scientist, a curious person. He's kind of a mathematician, and we were all sort of in awe of him.

There was indeed something rather incongruous in Lucy's moral outburst over Mr. Eager. It was as if one should see the Leonardo on the ceiling of the Sistine. He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman's power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant. But possibly rant is a sign of vitality: it mars the beautiful creature, but shows that she is alive.

Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.

Jack Hogenbaum, a.k.a. "Leo D. Nardo, Your Titanic Lover," was the star of Ladies' Nights at the club. He'd been packing them in since the movie. He looked like Leonardo DiCaprio. Well, sort of. At least his brown hair hung down over his forehead on the left side, he had soulful eyes, and when he danced, he could do stuff with a life preserver you never dreamed.

At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. "Leonardo," wrote a friend, "why so troubled?" A sad refrain runs through his notebooks: "Tell me if anything was ever done," he often sighs. Or in another place: "Tell me if ever I did a thing.

Italians had a "national peculiarity" to use distinctive hand gestures and body language when they spoke: a resource that was, he believed, obvious to an Italian like Leonardo when he came to paint The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci. His voluminous notebooks reveal his peculiar fascination with observation and invention. This is his Aristotelian side. But his famous etching of Vitruvian Man reveals his more mystical, Platonic side.

The Vitruvian Man sprang from the same passion. Leonardo borrowed the Roman architect Vitruvius's belief that the parts of the human body all exist in exact proportion to one another, in order to construct a visual allegory of man's place in the cosmos.

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

Leonardo had considerable interest in geometry, especially for its practical applications in mathematics. In his words: Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Simply put, Leonardo replaced the mystic black bile, faculties, and spirits that permeated the writings of Galen, Avicenna, de Luzzi, and others, with his physical powers of movement, weight, force, and percussion - the building blocks of mechanics. he further used these mechanical concepts to demystify a whole host of physiological processes.

We all still show too little respect for nature, which in Leonardo's deep words recalling Hamlet's speech is full of infinite reasons which never appeared in experience. Every one of us human beings corresponds to one of the infinite experiments in which these reasons of nature force themselves into experience.

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)

If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art, that artwork had to be a constant delight and stimulus for the rest of the patron's life, and then usually go on to become a family heirloom. If an artwork was commissioned by the government, it had to serve as a permanent expression of that society's ethos and values.

I'm a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio's career. I love the path that he's taken. He seems to be very conscious of exactly what kind of project he wants for the following part of his career.

I had this relationship with the Mona Lisa painting and I thought it was important to look further. In a time that was very masculine, Leonardo da Vinci took a feminist approach.

CONCAVE LENS (1451)