CXV

Drawing is the means employed by art to set down and imitate the light
of nature. Everything in nature is manifested to us by means of light
and its complementaries, reflection and shadow. This it is which drawing
verifies. Drawing is the counterfeit light of art.

_Bracquemond._


CXVI

It won't do to begin painting heads or much detail in this picture till
it's all settled. I do so believe in getting in the bones of a picture
properly first, then putting on the flesh and afterwards the skin, and
then another skin; last of all combing its hair and sending it forth to
the world. If you begin with the flesh and the skin and trust to getting
the bones right afterwards, it's such a slippery process.

_Burne-Jones._


CXVII

The creative spirit in descending into a pictorial conception must take
upon itself organic structure. This great imaginative scheme forms the
bony system of the work; lines take the place of nerves and arteries,
and the whole is covered with the skin of colour.