On this, as on much else, Maxwell is brisk and forthright: if you're going to write poetry, "line-break is all you've got, and if you don't master line-break – the border between poetry and prose – then you don't know there is a border.
Meanwhile, many art historians have followed the old-master line.
Old masters line the walls at Southend's Beecroft art gallery, while co-operatively run galleries thrive in the fishing town of Wivenhoe and in picturesque Leigh-on-Sea.
All actors agree, however, that the key to mastering lines is not to treat them as lines, but as the ingredients of a character and a story.
Although the art collection there is world famous and includes 10 paintings by Van Dyck, 12 by Reynolds, 3 Gainsborourghs and a room wallpapered with 24 Canalettos, this painting was not considered anything special, just one of scores of lesser old masters lining the walls.
The chronology, labeled Revision 14 of NASA's "master time line," was published today by the independent investigative board.
Rezā ʿAbbāsī was also a master of line drawing, a form of art not popular in the Islamic world before the end of the 16th century.
A master of line, Muḥammadī (so called after his great father) began to paint while still young and while Tabrīz was still the capital.
When it's sunny, they shield the players with silver umbrellas, extending their arms to avoid entering their master's line of sight.
His "Newly Published Perspective Picture: One Hundred Ghost Stories in a Haunted House" reveals how Hokusai exploited the telescoping view to bizarre ends, giving his ghouls a plausible space within which to enact their implausible drama.Above all, Hokusai was a master of line and pattern, inscribing his forms within contours that eddy and spill like the currents of a mountain stream.
