omnium gatherum, n. : a collection of many different, often unsorted, ideas or items.

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"I still, in presence of life ... have reactions -- as many as possible. ... It's, I suppose, because I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility. Hence the reactions -- appearances, memories, many things, go on playing upon it with consequences that I note and "enjoy" (grim word!) noting. It all takes doing -- and I do. I believe I shall do yet again -- it is still an act of life."

-Henry James, to Henry Adams.

"We work in the dark --
we do what we can --
we give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

Posted: Wednesday - March 08, 2006 at 07:14 PM       |


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