"What is fair in men, passes away,..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain”

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

“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.”

“Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.”

“There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.”

“I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”

“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.”