“Good judgement is through good drawing – from the nervous system to the sensory of the brain it is the combination of eurythmics, euphony and poetry, and when the good draughtsman draws, the muses come to dance. Then the imagination is given full play, and design happens. They then become the Muses.”

—  David Bomberg

"The Bomberg Papers", An Anthology From X (Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 90.

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