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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Doe Book Real Matter Hurt Principles Wonderful Heard College Goes On Being True Gates Idealism Idealist Hinges Barns

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.”

Men May Soul Process Results Judging Sells Deeds Agents

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.”

Wall Mouths Caught Tongue Wet Delicious Juice Ceilings Peaches Sticky Dripping

Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.”

Catastrophe Accomplices

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.”

Way Looks Children Whole Stories Faces Seeing Naked

Author:John Crowley

“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.”

Kind Made Stories Forever Goes On Limits Immortality

Author:Charles de Lint

“No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.”

Forever Bed Lays Shining Stations Bosoms Pebbles

Book:Tales and Poems

Source: Tales and Poems

“A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.”

Stars White Path Tree Strange Flower Gay Ten Bird Red All Things Rivers Green Fishes Brilliant Golden Silver Tall Unseen Carpet Glowing Daisies Scarlet Rubies Flamingos

Book:The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

“But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.”

Ifs Littles Wall Prove Rings Bitter Grass Fairy Liars Sweetest Mushrooms Blackberries Fungi

Book:Imaginations

Source: Imaginations

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