Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability… — Vitruvius
Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.
In the original Latin
Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.
De Architectura · 70 BC
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Current citation
Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.
Original citation
Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.
