[genius next door]

my handsome father.

The Vanity of Wealth & Honor

[patience]

[jargon]

[black & blue]

lately i have been listening to seabird & reading dorian gray. now it is raining & i think i shall nap & listen to james newton howard before abigail gets here.






'...i can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. art is always more abstract than we fancy. form & color tell us of form & color - that is all. it often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.'

'...and certainly, to [dorian] Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, & for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.'