Art Paintings Gallery: May 2016

Sunday 15 May 2016

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the town of Vinci, not far from Florence in Italy.

He was the love child of a notary by the name of Ser Piero da Vinci and Caterina, a woman from a peasant family who went on to marry someone else when Leonardo was still a boy. Leonardo’s father married a young girl of 16 years old who unfortunately died young, and then went on to marry a 20 year old when Leonardo was 16. Due to his parents other partners, Leonardo was to have 17 half-siblings.

Quotes :

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

When 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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art . His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist.

Andy Warhol

Quotes
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I am a deeply superficial person.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Art is what you can get away with.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.