I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

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

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

It’s not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Life well spent is long.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The moment is timeless.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

People react to fear, not love – they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

To discover the soul living in somebody’s body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

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

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Necessities is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

If possible, you should try to make even the dead laugh.

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The most effective means of gaining fame is to make the world believe that you are already famous.

As soon as virtue is born, envy arises against it, and the body will sooner lose its shadow than virtue its envy.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself … the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment … And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Water is the driver of nature.

We might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

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.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

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.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Life without love is not life at all.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

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

Study the Art of Science, study the Science of Art. Develop your senses, especially learn how to see, realize that everything connects to everything else.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Beauty adorns virtue.

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind; large ones weaken it.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Water is the driver of nature.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

I awoke, only to see the rest of the World was still asleep.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Once You Have Tasted Flight You Will Walk the Earth With Your Eyes Turned Skyward.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Those who have tried to fly will walk looking at the sky, because they have been there and want to return.

Perspective is to Painting what the bridle is to a horse, and the rudder to a ship.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Of course. The Star Child shadows Newton, so we have to follow them… to the future.

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

He who thinks little errs much.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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 greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.