Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.