Beaver Press | 1924-10-10 | Page 2 | "It is Only When Dead That the Artist Begins to Have Value"

it Ts only when dead that the artist begins to have value by SHERWOOD ANDERSON in century magazine we came here or our fathers or grandfathers came here from a hundred diverse places and you may be sure it was not the artists artistic who vh 0 came artists do not want to cut down trees root stumps out of the ground build towns and railroads the artist wants to sit with a strip of canvas before him face an open space on a wall carve a bit of wood make combinations of words and sentences ces as I 1 am ain doing now trying to express to others samo thought or feeling of liis his own ile ife wants to dream of color to lay hold of form free tho the sensual in himself live more fully and freely in his contact with the materials before win him than lie he enn ann possibly live in life lie ile seeks a kind kiihl of controlled ecstasy and is a man with a passion a nut and very often when he 6 i i is s not in actual contact with his materials lie is much vain and more a disagreeable ass than thail any nian man not on an artist could possibly be As a living man mail lie he is almost always a pest it is aal only y when lead dead he begins to have value