Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.Leonardo da Vinci
“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass.”
Artist and inventor · 1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and anatomist whose notebooks reveal an insatiable curiosity about nature and art. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of pages with studies, inventions and observations.
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