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ization, the objects I behold correspond to my mood.

Thoreau

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

p 34-35

(artists)... will have, in these times, the sharpest eyes for the grotesque, for the perverse, and for the unacceptable. In some cases, these..(artists) ... may be unconsciously infected with the Manichean spirit of the times and suffer the much-discussed disjunction between sensibility and belief, but I think that more often the reason for this attention to the perverse is the difference between their beliefs and the beliefs of their audience. (the artist) ... will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them

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as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his visions to this hostile audience.

Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he shows them as a revelation, not of what we ought to be but of what we are at a given time and under given circumstances; that is, as a limited revelation but revelation nevertheless.

p 33-34

Flanery O'Connor - Mystery and Manners

But as I have written elsewhere, for the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expression may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him. The result of handling