John Lavery,
The Life of a Painter (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1940), pp
. 30-31:
I doubt if there is a more heartless crew than poets, painters, and composers. We are encouraged in this callousness by our lay brethren. I often wonder why. Robert Louis Stevenson said that we are merely on a par with the daughters of joy who are paid for doing what they enjoy most. Art is so sacred the love of it covers a multitude of sins, and so we excuse ourselves.
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The Sons of Joy
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| John Lavery, Anna Pavlova (1911) |
