ABSTRACT
One of the things that had been so dissatisfying about those deliberate drawings which were sheer copying of the object was that they had no life in them. Now I read:
‘The true amount of mental sympathy that the student can give to the subject he wants to draw creates a sense of life in the picture. This is very important. From this sense of life the picture begins to have a value of its own, an internal or spiritual value that the artist has added to it, quite separate from its interest as a mere copy of the subject.’
