Viewing page 102 of 128

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

-313-

the same qualities that make us exclaim that the flower is beautiful; and it is this quality of absolute and essential beauty in the result of the artist's creative efforts that is the Life of the work of art, more truly than any literal import or adventitious significance it may possess."

This passage, it seems to me, says volumes about the man, his work, and his view of the inner meaning of beauty.

As I came to know him better, I was astonished by the many facets of his personality.. He was at once a gentle dreamer and a fighter who took the world by the throat in his determination to express himself in his own fashion. If he ever had any self-doubt, I saw no evidence of it. He was immensely erudite. One night we went to the circus in New York and he launched into a discussion of elephants! He recalled some of the earliest references to [[last line cut off]]