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"I've passed all the scientific tests."

It isn't for love of the thing itself that an artist works, but so that through it he's expressing love for something higher....

"Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it and, it shouldn't be sinful to want to have created beauty?"

These last 10 pages contained one of the most effective pannings of Carnegie's "masterpiece" I've ever read!

"What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work?" "What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around."

I've been putting this one off for a while, completely unaware of its wealth of treasures!

First book of 2016!