"O painter, take care lest the greed..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.
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“If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
“Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?”
“The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.”
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“I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.”
“What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?”
“Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.”