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'Art is really sex in another guise.' Mervyn Peake.
'Art is more than history - it is a living, breathing, self-contained and permanent state of beauty.' MP
'Beauty plus pity - that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.' Nabakov
(It's more about art and illustration than writing, so far, as expected for this stage of his life.)
— Mar 24, 2017 06:16AM
'Art is more than history - it is a living, breathing, self-contained and permanent state of beauty.' MP
'Beauty plus pity - that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.' Nabakov
(It's more about art and illustration than writing, so far, as expected for this stage of his life.)
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For fans - of his art as much as his writing. There was little that was new to me, but it was well-written, beautifully and generously illustrated, and will be used to update many of my other Peake reviews.
— Mar 31, 2017 02:52PM
Cecily
is on page 263 of 368
The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.
.
But the white page darkens
And is blown on the wind
And the voice of a pencil
Who can find?
— Mar 27, 2017 10:46AM
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.
.
But the white page darkens
And is blown on the wind
And the voice of a pencil
Who can find?
Cecily
is on page 106 of 368
Thanking his mother-in-law for 'the wondrous socks... they make me feel very sprightly and spring-like, and I am leaping about most frolicsome-like and giving little whimsical crys [sic] of delight which do not suit my inner aspect, but which satisfy my feeling.'
Mrs Gilmore kept him in socks for the rest of her life. p84
— Mar 22, 2017 03:03PM
Mrs Gilmore kept him in socks for the rest of her life. p84
Cecily
is on page 57 of 368
The paper and binding are unexceptional, but in every other respect, this book is a thing of profound beauty: the words, the many illustrations, and excerpts of poetry.
— Mar 20, 2017 03:31PM
