"...it is eminently necessary for the student to train his eye accurately to observe the forms of things by the most painstaking of drawings. In these school studies feeling need not be considered but only a cold accuracy... For how can the draughtsman, who does not know how to draw accurately the cold, common place view of an object, hope to give expression to the subtle differences presented by the same things seen under the excitement of strong feeling?... Drawing ... must be more than what is called accurate. It must present the form of things in a more vivid manner than we ordinarily see them in nature. Every new draughtsman in the history of art has discovered a new significance in the form of common things, and given the world a new experience. He has represented those qualities under the stimulus of the feeling they inspired in him, hot and underlined, as it were, adding to the great book of sight the world possess in its art, a book by no means completed yet."
Harold Speed
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