"Poetry is superior to painting in the..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”

“Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.”

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

“At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.”

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”

“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

“For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?”