During his childhood, he received informal education in mathematics, geometry and Latin. It was only when he was 14 years old that he took up art training, under the guidance of Andrea di Cione, who was popularly called as Verrocchio. Several other artists were trained by this master including Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi, Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio. As an apprentice, Leonardo was taught a wide range of areas including metallurgy, plaster casting, carpentry, chemistry, metal working, leather working, and mechanics. He also refined his artistic skills in modelling, sculpting, and painting. leonardo da vinci Paintings, Drawings
Leonardo worked closely with Verrocchio on the painting entitled The Baptism of Christ, which depicted an angel holding the robe of Jesus. The young artist's work was quite superior, that it greatly impressed Verrocchio. Based on scholars, the painting showed that it employed a new technique of using oil paint. This proved to show Leonardo's ingenuity and his skills that were rather ahead of his time.
When Leonardo turned 20, he was able to qualify in the Guild of St. Luke, which was an association of doctors of medicine and artists. However, he was more interested to maintain his collaboration with Verrocchio even if his father has already set up his very own workshop. During the years 1482 until about 1499, Leonardo was able to make a living for his artistic skills while in Milan. It was there that he was able to prove his superb talent as a painter, as he was commissioned to complete two significant paintings. These artworks included The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception. Another painting that he made was The Last Supper, intended for the Santa Maria delle Grazie Monastery. In 1485, Leonardo decided to visit Hungary, where he met the artist Matthias Corvinus. This man was believed to be the painter behind the masterpiece "Holy Family". leonardo da vinci quotes
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” “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.” “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” “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.” “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” “I love those who can smile in trouble...” “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” “If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death” “Learning never exhausts the mind.” “The knowledge of all things is possible” “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.” “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” “The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.” “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain” “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” “As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do” “One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.” “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” “I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.” “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” “life without love, is no life at all” “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.” “You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” “Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ” “Time stays long enough for those who use it.” “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” “An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.” “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose” “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions” “Water is the driving force in nature.” “I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” “God sells us all things at the price of labor.” “All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.” “He who thinks little errs much…” “A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” “Our life is made by the death of others.” “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!” “once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up” “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.” “Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.” “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.” “He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.” “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” “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.”
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