INTRODUCTION
1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities,trans. David Constantine (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 120, 125, 127, 147, 155.
2. Paul Valéry, “Degas, Dance and Drawing,” in Degas, Manet, Monisot, trans. David Paul, Bollingen Series, vol. 12 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1960), 36.
3. Ibid., 37.
4. Octavio Paz, “Chillida del Hierro al Reflejo,”in Sombras y Obras: Arte Y Literatura (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1983), 218. Translation by Dore Ashton.
5. Aristotle, Aristotle’s Poetics,trans. S. H. Butcher (New York: Hill and Wang, 1961), 104.
WHERE IT ALL BEGINS: PEAS IN A POD
1. Berton Roueche, “The Talk of the Town,” New Yorker,August 9, 1979, 23.
BELL PEPPERS, GARLIC, BROKEN SHELLS, STILL LIFES
1. K. G. Boon, Rembrandt: The Complete Etchings (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1963), 217.
2. Jane Fearer Safer and Frances McLaughlin Gill, Spirals from the Sea(New York: C. N. Potter, 1982), 17–18.
HANDWRITING: THE SCRIBBLE PAGE
1. Saul Steinberg, The Passport (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954).
LESSONS FROM THE MASTERS: HOMAGE AND REINVENTION
1. Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1963), 515–16.
2. Patrick Nuttgens, The Story of Architecture, 2nd ed. (London: Phaidon, 1997), 182–87, 256–57.
3. Aurora Cuito and Cristina Montes, Antoni Gaudí: Complete Works (Berlin: Feirerabend, 2003), 51–52.
4. Judith A. Barter, ed., Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1998), 72, 103.
THE DUMB OBJECT
1. Cited by Simon Schama, in “Rembrandt’s Ghost,” New Yorker, March 26, 2007, 40.
FLOWERS, PLANTS, AND MONDRIAN
1. Harry Holtzman and Martin James, eds., The New Art, the New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986), 118.
TREES
1. Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter (New York: Crown, 2006), 3.
2. Ibid., 75.
DIRTY DRAWING: ADVANCED PROJECTS
1. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1967). First published 1872.
DRAWING IN PRACTICE: POSTGRADUATE WORK
1. Peter Lynch, The Cranbrook Monographs (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art & Telos Art Publications, 2003), 12.