More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"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."
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
"Our life is made by the death of others."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."