Those of you who have read my novel Victorine know that the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens plays a significant part in the book. (I won’t give much away about that.)
of one’s self than an arm’s length of what belongs to others.
Alfred Stevens
What you might not know is that he wrote a volume on his philosophy of painting. I agree with some of what he says and strongly disagree with other bits, but if you want to get a better sense of him or if you want to read some inspiring quotes about art, you’ll love this. My gift to you today is this wonderful volume I uncovered online.
The information in it is presented one thought at a time with lots of whitespace for you to pause and say Selah. My kinda book. Be aware that the book is a scanned in version, so the first ten pages are blank and wrinkled, but they’re before the book proper starts, so keep scrolling; it’s worth it, I promise. Read it by downloading it below:
