A Journey Around my Room - 25 & 16 sketches

You can train the human beast to play the harpsichord; and when it is trained by a good master, the soul can travel at perfect ease...converseley, it is impossible to paint even the simplest thing in the world unless the soul deploys all its faculties to the task.

Wretched Girl! Didn't you know that Raphael had announced he would paint a picture even finer than the transfiguration? Were you not aware that you were holding in your arms nature's favourite?

-old XdM