7. The Personal Note
IN talking with brother painters I often find myself giving prominence to some particular word likerhythm,vibration, orcolour: but I must always forget the root-meaning, or I would discard it at once. I must employ my adopted word in a new way. Its special meaning, though never explained, is communicated by repeating the word freely in various relations, pronouncing it with emphasis in an unexpected moment, or, again, pausing before its utterance so that the appreciative ear may anticipate it and catch the spiritualsense intuitively and feel all I had attached to it from myself. It is nonsense to talk upon art without a personal note of this kind!