The Daily Herald is unkind. It has been horrid About my nice new war. I shall burn the Daily Herald. - Osbert Sitwell

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

Heroic figures are now obsolete,
So Demigod and Devil find retreat
In minds of children — as rare beasts and men,
Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fen
From man protected — where each form assumes
Gigantic stature and intention, looms
From wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:
For them each flower teems with mysteries.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy…to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.