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 VINCIWe are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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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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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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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
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He who thinks little errs much.
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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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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.
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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.
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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
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To become an artist you have to be curious.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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