Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Rudders
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The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
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Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
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Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
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Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
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