Leonardo da Vinci

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"The knowledge of all things is possible"

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

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"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."

"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."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

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

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

"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."

"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions"

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose"

"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."