Famous quotes by Artists

"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Life well spent is long"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Wars have never hurt anybody, except the people who die"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Let my enemies devour each other"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete, and classic as the works of museums"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait"

Salvador Dali, Artist

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