LEONARDO DA VINCI

"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly."

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

"I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die."

"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."

"When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

"Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

"A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job."

"You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

"Water is the driving force in nature."

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."

"Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us."

"To become an artist you have to be curious."

"Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all."

"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."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort."

"The moment is timeless."

"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

"Motion is created by the destruction of balance."

"The five senses are the ministers of the soul."

"I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."

"As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"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."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"He who walks straight rarely falls."

"Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!"

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

"Nothing is hidden under the sun."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."