Leonardo da Vinci Quotes by Walter Isaacson

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovato

Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s

Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

Think visually. Leonardo was not blessed with the ability to formulate math equations or abstractions. So he had to visualize them, which he did with his studies of proportions, his rules of perspective, his method for calculating reflections from concave mirrors, and his ways of changing one shape into another of the same size. Too often, when we

If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.

Painting requires not only intellect, he said, but also imagination.