Excerpt from Line: An Art Study<br><br>All drawing is nothing more than that - the combina tion of straight lines into curves, which I had been combining nearly all my life - not quite unconsciously as the bourgeois gentilhomme spoke prose; but as a deliberate and conscious artist.<br><br>Having undertaken the book, in the full belief that I had bitten off something well within my powers to swallow, since such a book has been in mind for over twenty years,' the question was - exactly where to begin.<br><br>Since the pointing out of the simplicity of drawing was of the essence of the task there could be no more obvious answer than At the beginning, of course! And forthwith to start writing, and go on until the ink ran out.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.