"There is no result in nature without..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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

“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”

“Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”

“Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.”

“I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.”

“If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.”

“...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.”

“And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.”