Status Updates From The Passionate Journey

p 319 John’s view of death.

288 Provincetown is the whole world in miniature.

287 John- each artist has to be content with his own limitation.

p 279 list of writers he met at Cap Cod

p273 He rediscovers.

P 213 John describing the prairies, “The barren plains are like a world without end”.

p 165 looks at his paintings and believes he has not found God in them, proclaims to himself there is no God, gives up painting and drinks and drinks.

P 137 John wrote, “All forms of art are a seeking after truth. Yet it is not the finding of this truth which determines the worth of the work, but rather the intensity and faithfulness of the search.”

p 136 John painted what represented God to him- “the white buffalo on the prairie, the white ship on the sea, the white sun in the sky”

P 135 artists and writers only did one work, one book or portrait of himself.

p126”Was there even the slightest chance that he might find that which he was seeking, and the technical skill with which to create it
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p 90 John discovers what has been missing in his paintings. Fantastic!

p 34 “ What made a good draughtman?… the discipline of hard work until the pencil became part of the hand, a natural extension of the arm as well as of the mind and temperament.”