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If you want to know what’s possible en plein air, stick to the time window.

Today, we either take architecture too seriously, or not enough: in the former case we see it as either the destruction or salvation of society and the environment, in the latter it’s at best mere packaging and at worst shelter.

Leonardo's Vitruvian man, ad quadratum and ad triangulum, the normative Ionic, and the feminine Doric in Rome

Tradition is a modern idea.

But above all, the best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms, and knees, with the bones underneath. Then one may be sure that through much study attitudes in any position can be drawn by help of the imagination without one’s having the living forms in view. Giorgio Vasari, Vasari on Technique, trans. L. S. Maclehose, Dover Publ., 1999, p. 210 I'd like to offer two alternative

one of the qualities that make Old Master drawings both beautiful and interesting is their pentimenti

I thought to myself, and then said to him, it would be fun to think of the right painting subject for that frame.