This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 58