Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
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Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward. For it is there that you have been and it its there that you will always long to be.
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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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