Quotes

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” Pablo Picasso

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!” Leonardo da Vinci

“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” Leonardo da Vinci

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” Pablo Picasso

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso

“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.” Leonardo da Vinci

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” Leonardo da Vinci

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

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” Leonardo da Vinci

“I have wasted my hours.” Leonardo da Vinci

“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.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.” Pablo Picasso

“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.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” 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.” Leonardo da Vinci

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” Pablo Picasso

“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Pablo Picasso

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci

“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.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Life well spent is long.” Leonardo da Vinci