"To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect"
"Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port."
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Source: Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: Translated from the Original Italian”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive
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