Quotes

What You Do is Who You Are.

What began as a portrait of a silk merchant’s young wife became a quest to portray the complexities of human emotion, made memorable through

German assistant who was supposed to be helping him construct his mirrors and produce some for the wardrobe rooms of the pope and Giuliano.

Baldassare Castiglione, an author and courtier who knew Leonardo in Rome, described him as one “of the world’s finest painters, who despises the art

“Though human ingenuity may make various inventions it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature, because in

He had forced a kiss from her. She had felt his arms warm and close and strong about her, and had not known whether

“There are different kinds of sickness. There is sickness of the body, and sickness of the heart, and sickness of the spirit;—and then there

“The Apollos of the world,—I don’t mean in outward looks, mamma,—but the Apollos in heart, the men,—and the women too,—who are so full of

Drawing on the ideas and fantasies he had developed for an ideal city while living in Milan thirty years earlier, Leonardo began sketching in

studies.” Cellini later quoted Francis declaring that he “could never believe there was another man born in this world who knew as much as