Sketches in Pen and Ink Quotes

“The grey hair, which has spoken of old age at once to writers and doctors, means to a painter not just grey hair, but a certain grey – perhaps a grey with silver lights and warm shadows, perhaps an opaque cold grey, but a grey as different from other greys as one chord in music is different from others.”
― Vanessa Bell, Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook

“Virginia sent the possibly rather unusual message ‘She is an angel’ and signed it by the nickname we always gave her – ‘Goat’. This arrived ‘She is an aged Goat’ and soon after George returned crestfallen and miserable and retired to bed, suffering it was said from shock.”
― Vanessa Bell, Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook