“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
