♡ “i hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔷 𝔬𝔣 𝔳𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯. from the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vaguenesses at which i shuddered the more thrillingly, because i shuddered knowing not why; --from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) i would in vain endeavour to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words. by the utter simplicity, by the nakedness of his designs, he arrested and overawed attention.” ♡
*𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔯
