“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think Leonardo da Vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One must apply the greatest artistry in three things,” Alberti wrote, “walking in the city, riding a horse, and speaking, for in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Look longer at the picture. It vibrates with Leonardo’s understanding that no moment is discrete, self-contained, frozen, delineated, just as no boundary… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“it is clear that Leonardo was charming and attractive and had many friends. “His disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone’s… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind,” he wrote. “The first is easy… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Be curious, relentlessly curious. “I have no special talents,” Einstein once wrote to a friend. “I am just passionately curious.”4 Leonardo actually… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had also been wrestling with the question of why the sky appears blue, and around that time he had correctly concluded… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
