[hawthorne''s] Pious Blame Is A Chuckle Of

The Tiny Fish Enjoy Themselves In The Sea.

One Could Laugh At The World Better If It Didn't Mix Tender Kindliness With Its Brutality.

And Venus Among The Fishes Skips And Is A She-dolphin She Is The Gay, Delighted Porpoise Sporting With Love And The Sea She Is The Female Tunny-fish, Round And Happy Among The Males And Dense With Happy Blood, Dark Rainbow Bliss In The Sea.

Any Inhibition Must Be Wrong, Since Inevitably In The End It Causes Neurosis And Insanity.

I Have Lived Among Enough Painters And Around Studios To Have Had All The Theories - And How Contradictory They Are - Rammed Down My Throat. A Man Has To Have A Gizzard Like An Ostrich To Digest All The Brass-tacks And Wire Nails Of Modern Art Theories.