Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.
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Sketching from Nature.Samuel(novelistButler
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?"
David Hockney
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.William Collins
I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.
Julio Cortazar
The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
Francoise Sagan
Butler, Samuel (novelist, 1835-1902)
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