It was a cloudy and rainy Saturday last week. My cabin fever temperature was around 105 degrees. Time for an excursion. Leonardo da Vinci was at the art museum. That sounded interesting. No photography was allowed in the da Vinci exhibit. Understandable.
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius. More than just in art. He said…
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
I want to plaster that phrase all over my house. He had such great insights into life having lived an eventful life himself. He also said…
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
As da Vinci attempted to create the world’s largest bronze horse statue, he had this on his mind…
“He who lets time pass does not grow in virtue: the more I think of it the more I grieve. No man has it in him to be virtuous who will give up honor for gain. Good fortune is of no avail to he who does not toil.”
“Gluttony, sleep and idleness in bed have banished every virtue from the world. So that our bewildered nature is almost overcome by debauchery. Henceforth, it would be well to rouse yourself from sleep, the Master said, because lying down will not bring thee to Fame; nor staying beneath the covers. He who, without Fame, burns his life to waste, leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than wind-blown smoke or the foam upon the sea.”
Is that great or what? What do you think about the quotes?




















