"The key of the whole situation is in this - without good drawing and construction there can be no good painting. Drawing is the backbone; and if it is neglected, no matter what other qualities may be present, painting becomes colored mush. No amount of adornment of any but a perfect skeleton will produce anything but deformities; form, construction, line, are the foundations of all good work. ... the tendency manifest in some quarters to rely too much on other qualities for a pleasing ensemble will lead in a measure to the suppression of the importance of form, and that a school of art that is wanting in this essential cannot rise to the highest point."
William Coffin
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