Aspect Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail…

— Joshua Reynolds

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

— Mark Twain

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his…

— Otto Weininger

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his…

— Emile M. Cioran

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice,…

— Napoleon Hill

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

— Ayn Rand

“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a…

— Hermann Hesse

“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified…

— N.D. Wilson

“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

— Robert Genn

I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I…

— Alex Abreu