David Bomberg Quote

The exercise of drawing from the life brings out the individuality of the (artist) in the man. When the door has been closed on completion of an academic rendering, no matter how rendered to the resemblance of the anatomic stress and strain, it is still only saying the things you already know... it is still a lifeless drawing in the light of modern art.

"The Bomberg Papers", An Anthology From X (Oxford University Press, 1988) p. 88.