how the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius. (Location 162)
Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator. (Location 186)
