أغاني ساعة 3 بالليل

Although generally considered by his contemporaries to be friendly and gentle, Leonardo was at times dark and troubled. His notebooks and drawings are a window into his fevered, imaginative, manic, and sometimes elated mind. Had he been a student at the outset of the twenty-first century, he may have been put on a pharmaceutical regimen to alleviate his mood swings and attention-deficit disorder. One need not subscribe to the artist-as-troubled-genius trope to believe we are fortunate that Leonardo was left to his own devices to slay his demons while conjuring up his dragons.

- The biography of Leonardo da Vinci

رغم أنّه اعتُبِر ودودًا ولطيفًا من قِبَل معاصِريه، إلّا أنّ ليوناردو دافنشي كان في بعض الأحيان سوداويًا ومهمومًا. مذكّراته تمثّل نافذةً لخياله الواسع وعقله المحموم والمهووس، وفي بعض الأحيان، السعيد.
لو كانَ ليوناردو طالبًا جامعيًا يعيش في مطلع القرن الحادي والعشرين، لربما وِصفَت له مجموعةُ أدويةٍ لتخفّفَ تقلباته المزاجية واضطراب الانتباه الذي لديه. لا يحتاج المرء ليؤمن بالصورة النمطية للفنّان المعذب ليُدرِك أنّنا محظوظون أنّ ليوناردو قد تُرِك لنفسه ليصارعَ شياطينه ويرسم تنانينه في ذات الوقت.

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Pagans are all those who say yes to life, and to whom “God” is a word signifying acquiescence in all things

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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[Leonardo] constructed his art on a scaffold of science.

- The biography of Leonardo da Vinci

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

- Lomazzo, writing about Leonardo da Vinci

لم يكمل ليوناردو أيًا من الأعمال التي بدأها لأنّ تصوّره عن الفن كان مثاليًا جدًا لدرجة أنّه رأى الأخطاء حتى في أعماله التي كان يظنّها الآخرون معجزات.

Leonardo’s dedication to portraying the outward manifestations of inner emotions would end up driving not only his art but some of his anatomical studies. He needed to know which nerves emanated from the brain and which from the spinal cord, which muscles they activated, and which facial movements were connected to others. He would even try, when dissecting the brain, to figure out the precise location where the connections were made between sensory perceptions, emotions, and motions. By the end of his career, his pursuit of how the brain and nerves turned emotions into motions became almost obsessive. It was enough to make the Mona Lisa smile.

- Leo's biography