Rudder Quotes

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

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.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.