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On Looking Through Old Sketchbooks: 9

Joshua Tree National Park, California, 1997 “Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.”—Edgar Degas.   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader

On looking through old sketchbooks: 8

Joshua Tree National Park, California, 1997 “We should talk less and draw more. Personally I would like to renounce speech altogether, and like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches.”—Goethe.   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader