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THE FINE ARTS

TRAVEL SKETCHES

When Le Corbusier travelled, he always took a notebook from his pocket in order to record something he had just thought or seen. At these moments Le Corbusier draw as one would take notes, without trying to make a pretty picture, simply to engrave into his memory some central idea, to remember it and assimilate it. He often said "Don't take photographs, draw; photography interferes with seeing, drawing etches into the mind."

Le Corbusier himself called this companion his "sketchbook". Seventy-three notebooks, over four thousend pages, marking out the entire life of a great universal man.

 

 

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