"The painter strives and competes with nature...." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”

“But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.”

“He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.”

“If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.”

“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”

“How can you contrive to write so even?”

“The trees that have it in their pent-up budsTo darken nature and be summer woods.”

“He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument”

“The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”