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Why does my pen not drop from my hand on approaching the infinite pity and tragedy of all the past? –Henry James questioning himself at the graves of his parents and sister . . . feeling that one is not only a little individual living a little individual life, but that is in oneself the whole of mankind . . . not me – the little vain, personal D.H. Lawrence – but that unnamable me which is not vain nor personal . . . –D.H. Lawrence on the impersonality of creating A work of art is not its content but . . . its content having become form . . . –Marcuse on consciousness as a form giver All nature has powers of response . . .Our idea that things are dead or inert is a convention. –Robert Henri When I work, there is no consciousness of ideals – but intuition and impulse. –David Smith
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