There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
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.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words....
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.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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