A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
The knowledge of all things is possible
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm
Water is the driving force in nature.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience