Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.


The Practice & Science of Drawing: with 93 illustrations & diagrams (ed. 1922)


Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest,...

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest,...

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest,...

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest,...