The Ideal is always
haste, without worldly ambitions, without vexation of spirit.
An inspiration is no more than a seed that must be planted evil, no matter what ideal it be. No idea should ever be raised to a governing throne : that an idea isjust the final concrete or registered result of living dynamic interchange and reactions: that no idea is ever perfectly expressed until its dynamic cause is finished and that to continue to put into dynamic efiect an already perfected idea means the nullification of all living activity, the substitution of mechanism, and all the resultant horrors of ennui, ecstasy, neurasthenia, and a collaps-
and nourished.
The canvas I began ro years ago I shall perhaps complete today or tomorrow: It has been ripening under the sunlight of the years that come and go.... It is a wise artist who knows when to cry halt in his composition, but it should be pondered over in his heart and worked out with prayer and fasting."
The least of a man's original emanation is better than the best of a borowed thought.
ing psyche.
D.H. Lawrence, Fantasies of the
Unconscious
Friday Sept ro
A. Pinkham Ryder He must
No thing but the song
paint-
After great pain,
a formal feeling comes.
He must live to paint, not paint to live. Diana on gilded leather The poet on Pegasus Entering the Realm of the Muses
E. Dickinson
we fall back in shadows.
I proceed in perverseness, Winged Horse "The artist
mustb:ucl<7e
himselfwith infinite patience.
His ears mustbe deaf to the clamor of insistent friends who would quicken his pace. His eyes muSt see naught but the vision beyond. He must await the season of fruitage without roo
cause there is
nothing
be
else to do
but die. And we are not allowed that. Let others fall down be fore us. Or bring down the temple of my soul.
Igoa-