Life savers
Back in art school we were taught to keep sketchbooks. Even though at the time it seemed like nothing but a nuisance, this habit, once adopted, turned out to be a life saver. How else should one digest and sort out the myriad of impressions raining in on you every day. Having lived a good part of my life in my own sort of world, keeping sketchbooks also had a therapeutic aspect to it.
For everyone else, the sketchbooks of any artist are a way to literally watch someone think. That is why hardly anyone wants to give too much of their notes away.
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