Wednesday, September 4, 2013

26. James Joyce


Portrait of the artist as an old man.

When I was in high school I didn’t know whether I wanted to be a writer or an artist.  I loved to do both.  I was reading a lot of Joyce at the time and writing convoluted and pretentious short stories.  But drawing was like breathing to me.

So I went to RISD.

“Welcome, O life!  I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscious of my race…Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”

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