"art is never finished, only abandoned












Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

More Leonardo da Vinci quotes
"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinqu...
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
"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.-Le...
"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.
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
"A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.