“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“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.”
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
“The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
“He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
“The knowledge of all things is possible.”
“As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.”
“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”
“The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.”
“Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
“The moment is timeless.”
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
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