Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

This mind wandering is without intention or plan. But, consciously or unconsciously, artists are incapable of not doing it. It is why Dickens prowled city streets at night, Ibsen took long daily walks and Virginia Woolf set out across London. They all sought to absorb the minute details that others might ignore or overlook but that artists collect.