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.[Il pittore che ritrae per pratica e givditio d’ochio, sanza ragione è come lo spechio, che in se imita tutte le a se cotraposte cose sanza cognitione d’esse.]
Source:The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, ed. 1883), Volume I, Section 20, Page 18
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