With my engineering background, I have come to benefit from Leonardo da Vinci’s advice to “Study the science of art and the art of science.”, an interesting quote from the archetypal Renaissance Man. It implies that, even back then, there existed a clear distinction between art and science. He was indeed quite numeric, as conveyed in this quote:
“In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building… wall which is more distant less defined and bluer… five times as far away, make five times as blue.”
Also from from Leonardo in a less analytical mood:
“The painter who has no doubt about his own abilities will attain very little.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things, namely, man and the workings of man’s mind. The first is easy, the second difficult… “
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.”
And I can’t disagree with this sage advice:
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“He saw beauty in both art and engineering and his ability to combine them was what made him a genius.” Steve Jobs