Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

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

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