Brandon Grant

“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, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete

“To become an artist you have to be curious.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
― Leonardo da Vinci