Discussions with Leo Marchutz about art usually covered a wide range of topics such as light, mass (gravity), volume, and most importantly unity.

"The art of the painter consists in drawing attention only to what is essential...", Eugene Delacroix

In the following excerpt from “The Marchutz Tapes”, Leo Marchutz describes his experience of drawing in the streets of Aix-en-Provence. It is intriguing to discover how Leo Marchutz began his drawings of Aix. As a student, I have taken inspiration from Marchutz’s thoughts on drawing, of what is important, and how to make sacrifices along the way.

Leo Marchutz created, over time, drawings and lithographs of streets... as he said “the street ones are all along the way”. First in Aix and then later on in Venice he drew and made lithographs of the streets.

"...there is no work of art which is defined from outside in."