Something Not Ourselves

“The artist who can actually get down on paper something not himself – some scheme of values of which he partakes – so that the record will not waver with time or assume grotesque perspectives as viewpoints alter and framing interests vanish, has achieved the only possible basis for artistic truth and the only possible basis for [...] endurance.” -- Critic Hugh Kenner on Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" c.1950. (Via Kurp)