““Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The weather has got into me. It just gets darker and darker. Non-stop wind and rain. I’d rather watch than write. I’m looking at this painting now: it shows a handsome boy lying near a spring, out of breath from running. Such a beautiful boy! And such a divine noon which has taken him and induced him to sleep! I sit and gaze like this for a long time. Immersed again in art, I recover from the labour of creating it.””
