Amai Phoenix

“O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

“I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.
(As quoted by a fictional Leonardo in DaVinci Demons)”
― Leonardo da vinci

“Whatever— the soup is getting cold.

[Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518]”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”
― Leonardo da Vinci