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.Leonardo da Vinci
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
Artist and inventor · 1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and anatomist whose notebooks reveal an insatiable curiosity about nature and art. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of pages with studies, inventions and observations.
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