"While I thought that I was learning..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .”

“Truth was always but the daughter of time.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.”

“Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!”

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”

“The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.”

“Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.”

“Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.”