Artists know well the effect of the atmosphere of the studio.

Five minutes of that paint-laden air suffice to make the outer world a mere dream, and to recall the reality of work.

There was an old dressing-gown to which Thackeray was attached as to a friend, and which he believed indispensable to composition.

Balzac had his oval writing-room, when he grew rich, and the creamy white colour of the tapestries played a great part in his thoughts.

The blacksmith loves the smoke of the forge and the fumes of hot iron on the anvil, and the chiseller's fingers burn to handle the tools that are strewn on the wooden bench.
Gianbattista stood at the door of the studio, and had he been master instead of apprentice, he could not have resisted the desire to go to his place and take up the work he had left on the previous evening.