Exemplified via a quote from Van Gogh himself: “Drawing is something like writing. When one learns to write as a child, one feels that it is impossible ever to master it, and it seems like a miracle when one sees the schoolmaster writing so quickly. That does not alter the fact that one gets the hang of it after all in due course. And I really believe that one must learn to draw in such a way that it goes just as easily as writing something down and that one must have the proportions so clearly in mind and must learn to see in such a way that one can reproduce at will what one sees on a larger or smaller scale.”