The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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rules, you will be able, merely by your amended judgment, to  
criticise and recognise every thing that is out of proportion in a  
work, whether in the perspective or in the figures or any thing  
else.  
Necessity of theoretical knowledge (19. 20).  
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OF THE MISTAKES MADE BY THOSE WHO PRACTISE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE.  
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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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.  
The function of the eye (21-23).  
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