Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la manière de voir la forme. - Edgar Degas

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.

I am busy on a portrait of my self and my aunt and my two cousins, I will show it to you when you get back. I am doing it as if I were doing a picture. I've got to do it well, because I want to leave it as a memento.... The older one is really a lovely thing, the younger one has the devil in her as well as the kindness of an angel. I am doing them with their black dresses and little white pinafores which suit them delightfully. I have ideas for the picture's background running through my head. I would like a certain gracefulness with a nobleness of feeling that I don't know how to describe.