“Because there’s so much that just can’t be said plainly. Try describing what beauty is—plainly—and you’ll see what I mean.” Then he said that art could state very little—that its whole business was to evoke responses. And that without innovations and experiments—such as father’s—all art would stagnate. “That’s why one ought not to let oneself resent them—though I believe it’s a normal instinct, probably due to subconscious fear of what we don’t understand.”
