A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
LEONARDO DA VINCIArt is never finished, only abandoned.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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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.
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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.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
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