Thursday, March 11, 2010

A Paradox

(Leonardo Da Vinci, Sketch of a Square Church with Central Dome and Minaret)

"The more extensive your acquaintance is with the works of those who have excelled, the more extensive will be your powers of invention. . . . -- and what may appear still more like a paradox, the more original will be your conceptions."
-Sir Joshua Reynolds,
quoted in The Practice of Writing

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