Friday, October 22, 2010

Commonplace Book

'...he had too just a realising sense of the nature of art, to fancy that success in art - success in giving material form to the visions of the imagination - is ever possible; an artist might be defined as one whose mission it is to fail.'

from A Sleeveless Errand (Part I), a piece in Mademoiselle Miss and other stories by Henry Harland

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