November 11, 2008

A story of the painter Apelles

They say that when he was painting a horse, he became so frustrated in his wish to depict the horse's lather that he flung the sponge he used for wiping pigments off his brushes—and that its impact on the picture replicated the lather of a horse.

Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1.28