pr-r-r-r

Updated: June 21, 2025

You color the features with flesh-tones, mixed beforehand on your palette, taking very good care to shade one side of the face darker than the other; and because you draw now and then from a nude woman standing on a table, you think you can copy nature; you fancy yourselves painters, and imagine that you have got at the secret of God's creations! Pr-r-r-r!

Honoré de Balzac - The Hidden Masterpiece