Angelo was inspired by the way President Daisaku Ikeda describes “The completeness of the Incomplete” using Leonardo’s profile as follows:

“Leonardo's dream that human beings would someday fly like birds is well known, but I think we can say that his own spirit soared in creative flight throughout his life.

Leonardo wrote: "You will so exert yourself in youth"; "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"; "Death rather than weariness"; "No labor suffices to tire me." He was a person of extraordinary energy and perseverance.

While painting "The Last Supper," Leonardo would sometimes work from dawn to midnight without stopping to eat or drink. Then for three or four days he would not touch the painting, pacing the floor, utterly lost in thought. In spite of this amazing concentration, this all-consuming devotion to the act of creation, Leonardo completed relatively few of his works. Most of his paintings, though painstakingly planned and sketched, remain incomplete.

A multitalented genius, Leonardo in addition to painting set his hand to sculpture, mechanical inventions, military weapons and civil engineering, displaying his amazing versatility and breadth of interest. But as his flying machine, which stayed a dream, symbolizes, most of his work remained in the stage of ideas and plans and was never realized. Interestingly, that did not disturb Leonardo. He did not look upon these incomplete creations as failures or sources of frustration; without attachment, he moved on to the next project.

Things that may have seemed incomplete to others were perhaps for him finished in a sense, and in fact may have had a synergism as the completeness of the incomplete. Unless this were true, it would be very difficult to reconcile Leonardo's passion for creation with the enormous number of his uncompleted works. The completeness of the incomplete is, at the same time, the incompleteness of completeness.

The spirit of the Renaissance is often described as being of the whole, of totality, of the universal. Leonardo, too, no doubt perceived a world of infinite creativity, a totality and universalism that we might call the life of the cosmos--an all-embracing realm that Jaspers refers to when he says, "He [Leonardo] considered his work as a totality and held that everything he did must be subordinated to that totality."

Leonardo's creativity--whether it be in painting or sculpture, invention, architecture or engineering--was a process in which he called freely upon his monumental talent to incorporate the world of totality, of the universal, into the particular. It was, in other words, a process of making the invisible world visible. As a result, no matter how perfect a masterpiece he created, it could not avoid the fate of being incomplete, as long as it remained an event on the plane of the particular. We are not meant to rest peacefully on that plane; our destiny is to remain in continuous flight, ever moving forward to the next creation, constantly looking for new completeness.

The last words of Shakyamuni Buddha were "All phenomena are fleeting.... “.

These words express life's deepest truth. From the completeness of the incomplete to the incompleteness of completeness--the synergy of these two perspectives is the dynamic activity of life's infinite creativity, the dynamism of existence.