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Painting as a Pastime

By Winston Churchill · 1948

Churchill’s reflections on amateur painting, describing its techniques, pleasures, challenges, and value as a restorative form of creative activity.

Visual Arts Sources

Winston Churchill · 1948
Painting as a Pastime

Churchill’s reflections on amateur painting, describing its techniques, pleasures, challenges, and value as a restorative form of creative activity.

Leonardo da Vinci (translated by Jean Paul Richter) · 1888
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

A thematic collection of Leonardo’s notes on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mechanics, natural phenomena and practical observation.

Dieter Rams · 1995
Less but better

An account of Dieter Rams’s design principles, methods and ethics, centred on simplicity, usefulness, durability and responsible product design.

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