A note on art

If a man throws himself out of the fourth floor window, and you can't make a sketch of him before he gets to the ground, you will never do anything big.
Eugène Delacroix

First, you have to realize that Delacroix was a Romanticist, and the Romanticists were all about throwing themselves out of windows. Then you have to translate the whole sentence from Arrogant French Artist-ese (which is a language that not only arrogant French artists speak) to something you can actually use, and that preferably doesn’t include the word “never”.

Then you will have reached Understanding. Understanding can not be written down, it can only be drawn.