Joe says
Discouraging? It’s immoral!
Oh, these smug people who have been taught what to admire! These unborn souls who want to shut us all up in the dark! I suppose he went away thinking I put myself up higher than Raphael.
Who are we painting for? They don’t want it -wouldn’t take it for a gift. And here we are, a poor little group, standing amazed before the glory of the sun, and painting it -for the blind!
Some day -yes, when the life has oozed out of all our bright canvasses, when only the “rules” are left. And we won’t be able to rise from our graves and curse them!
I guess I let you in for a hard time, Silvia. I wish sometimes I could really paint the kind of thing that goes with stupid people’s dining rooms.
They with their Long Island Louvres!