Leonardo da Vinci about Art

• "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." ~ Leonardo da Vinci 

• "Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

• "Learn diligence before speedy execution." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

From the Painter's Keys

Johann Wolfgang Goethe > Art and Nature

'The beautiful is a manifestation of the secret laws of nature...When nature begins to reveal her open secret to a person, he feels an irresistible longing for her most worthy interpreter, art.' ~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe