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unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at.

Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it.

"Talent is a long patience..." It is a matter of considering long and attentively what you want to express, so that you may discover an aspect of it that has never before been noticed or reported.

"When you pass a grocer sitting in his doorway," he used to tell me, "or a concierge smoking a pipe, or a cab-stand, show me that grocer and that concierge, the way they are sitting or standing, their entire physical appearance, making it by skillfulness of your portrayal

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embody all their moral nature as well, so that I cannot confuse them with any other grocer or concierge; and make me see, by means of a single word, where-in one cab-horse does not resemble the fifty others ahead of it or behind it. p 60-61

The Death of Narcissus by Morris Fraser - 1976 - p 194

Depression results, more than anything, from an intolerable gap between the real and the ideal; a depressed person is ill because of the gap between the self that he sees and the self that he wants to be, between what he wants and what he has. He can, very often, make real-life "adjustments," but sometimes this is impossible, particularly in a sexual invert with a high sense of social responsibility. A creative artist, though, has skills which enable him to undertake a unique bridging venture. Using his art, he has means all his own to make the contrast between real and ideal less apparent,