Whenever I'm bored and fed up with picture-making, I take a break. If the break goes on longer than I'm comfortable with, I relax and start looking through my favourite books of drawings. Whenever I come to that tiny brown ink drawing by Rembrandt, made with a bamboo pen (probably), of the farmhouse in snow with a fence coming into the foreground with the purest calligraphic beauty imaginable, I feel a flush of pleasure and excitement and inspiration flows to me from everywhere. |