mental energy in these foolish imaginings - stop it!”
     “… that David always lacked, that power of the picturesque, that vigor, that daring which is to painting what the “Vis Comica” is to the art of the theater. Everything is even; there is no more interest in the head than in the draperies in the chair.” (Delacroix –Journal) AMEN!
     I could hug you for that, Delacroix! (and that is just what is wrong with my painting of Arthur on the steps- everything is of equal - and therefore of little - interest.)
                                                                     February 8, 1938- Tues.
     When I look at the sketch I worked on Saturday & yesterday, and note how I achieved a certain sort of freedom in it, former nature studies seen inhibited; and even this one is perhaps a little too self-contained - I think, oh when will I ever really let myself go and express the tremendous force of nature, or will I die at last without having done so? But the vital force must be within me.