Failure Quote by Ross King

“At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. “Leonardo,”…

— Ross King

“such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate son, Leonardo…

— Hourly History

“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even…

— Walter Isaacson

“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon…

— E.M. Forster

“He had always thought of himself as a successful man, although nothing he had ever done had turned out successfully.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”

— Norman Maclean

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He…

— Walter Isaacson

“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo…

— Walter Isaacson

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person of Jesus…

— Paulo Coelho

“I knew I was never going to write a screenplay, or a book, or direct a movie. I felt like I was never going…

— C.J. Roberts