We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
LEONARDO DA VINCIWater is the driving force in nature.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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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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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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The moment is timeless.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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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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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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