you find out how you may knock it about and in what way you must be
careful. Slowly built-up texture in oil-painting gives you the best
chance of changing without damage when it is necessary.

_Burne-Jones._


CXXVIII

The simpler your lines and forms are the stronger and more beautiful
they will be. Whenever you break up forms you weaken them. It is as with
everything else that is split and divided.

_Ingres._


CXXIX

The draperies with which you dress figures ought to have their folds so
accommodated as to surround the parts they are intended to cover; that
in the mass of light there be not any dark fold, and in the mass of
shadows none receiving too great a light. They must go gently over,
describing the parts; but not with lines across, cutting the members
with hard notches, deeper than the part can possibly be; at the same
time, it must fit the body, and not appear like an empty bundle of
cloth; a fault of many painters, who, enamoured of the quantity and
variety of folds, have encumbered their figures, forgetting the
intention of clothes, which is to dress and surround the parts
gracefully wherever they touch; and not to be filled with wind, like
bladders puffed up where the parts project. I do not deny that we ought