Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

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Original Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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.