Status Updates From Sketches in Pen and Ink

But I am certain -- and this is my heresy -- that in art skill is of no importance. When I say skill I mean skill of hand, mechanical skill. I even think it more likely to be a hindrance than a help, for as I said before, skill means that your hand has acquired certain habits and habits of hand tend to destroy what is most important to an artist -- sensibility. (Lecture Given at Leighton Park School, p. 161)

It was that hot summer of 1911 -- when records were broken and the English became un-moral and everyone was happy and lazy if they could only do nothing in some cool place and we went in boats at night and some even bathed, so great was the heat. Once Roger produced Edward Carpenter, for whom I think he had a great admiration. (Memories of Roger Fry, p. 145)