A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort b…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.244, Library of America
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