Stephen Rogers Peck important words stuff

"the beginner should perhaps set out to learn everything he can. Whatever seems in -their- experience to be useless debris will be dropped soon enough by the wayside.... Anatomy is complex. Its very complexities are fascinating but they are likely to lead the way to unreasonable evaluations. The student should not assume that it is necessary to be correct at all costs in these matters of bones and muscle. In one sense, a human body is the sum of its parts. But this premise can both help and hinder. It can hinder when we attend to the parts and ignore the sum. It is true the student must work at first to be correct, but they should never forget that there is little virtue in sheer correctness..... THey will want to gain, in their own right, such command of human forms and contours that their creation will become identified not with their anatomy charts, but with them." -Stephen Rogers Peck, Atlas of the Human Anatomy for the Artist