Wednesday, February 20, 2008

the arc of the pendulum

I feel that even the classicist is not free of his own emotions;
     It is likely that the greatest influence on a work comes, in fact, from its own author, regardless of his motives.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself . . ."
-samuel butler-

Jeremiah Moon said...

gasp! Somebody else has already written it!