my lunch, then painted what was before me, more I am afraid from the desire to paint something than a genuine need aroused by the subject. I worked hard all afternoon, and it was a pleasant spot to be in.
     On the way down the mountain, I stopped at a place labeled “Fanihon Point” one of those places designated for tourists to get out and “look at the view” – From here the whole vast valley in which Salamanca is located could be seen -; filled with late afternoon sunlight - I lay here a short while stretched out on the comforting warm grassy turf.
     Home lazily thru the level sunshine.
                                                                        August 28, 1936-
     “- painting their reactions to their times and to the life they lived with freedom, doing work that can stand comparison with the work of any period, for we must remember that artchangesbutdoesnotdevelop.“(Allen Tucker: Design & the Idea)
     “So much work today is so well done- pictures and stories so competent, so neat, so finished as to surface, so void of mistakes, so knowing, so lacking in recklessness, so timid, played so safe, so made for the market, so lacking in hope and life and reach, so entirely worthless, that one is relieved when one sees a man go after a big idea and fail- a big failure is better than a little success.” (Taken from