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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
  Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
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