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.Leonardo da Vinci
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
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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