Art is not satisfied with mere unrelated beauty of form or color.
It requires that the result confess some sensible relation to the
means by which it has been obtained; and in proportion as it does
this, it may claim to possess that individual and distinctive charm
which we call "Style." Pen drawing is most apt to lose its
individuality when it begins to assume the characteristics of
wash-drawing, such as an elaborate massing of grays, small light
areas, and a general indirectness of method...for if there is one
characteristic more than another which should distinguish pen
methods it is Directness. The nature of the pen seems to mark as
its peculiar function that of picking out the really vital features
of a subject. Pen drawing has been aptly termed the "shorthand of
Art;" the genius of the pen-point is essentially epitome. (From
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