"The painter who draws merely by practice..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
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.
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“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
“All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.”
“Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.”
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“We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
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“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
“Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.”
“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”