Leonardo da Vinci, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. I, as translated by Jean Paul Richter (1888)

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 Mirror

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Leonardo da Vinci

About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.