Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Interpretation
An artist should strive for self-awareness and critical evaluation of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci highlights the danger that artists face when they become complacent and believe that their work is without fault. This quote suggests that true artistic growth comes from a critical appreciation of one's own work, rather than self-satisfaction, which can hinder improvement and creativity.
In practice
During an art critique session, I shared, 'The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.'
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I donβt like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I donβt like it.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
I don't want people to look at my menu and see just the ingredients. I want to take them on a journey.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
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