A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.Leonardo Da Vinci
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.Leonardo Da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. Leonardo Da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. Leonardo Da Vinci