More from Leonardo da Vinci
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci on art
I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
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