Excerpt from Drawing From Nature: A Series of Progressive Instructions in Sketching, to Which Are Appended Lectures on Art Delivered at Rugby School; Illustrated by Eighteen Coloured Plates, and Numerous Woodcuts (Classic Reprint)
Locke again confirms us in this Opinion, when he says that drawing helps a man Often to express in a few lines well put together what a whole sheet of paper in writing would not be able to represent or make intelligible.