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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
Pablo Picasso
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I do not seek. I find.”
Pablo Picasso
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
Pablo Picasso
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Pablo Picasso
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Pablo Picasso
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
Pablo Picasso
“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Leonardo da Vinci
“It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pablo Picasso