THINGS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ME [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Are books the only things that shape, intellectually, people's minds and personalities ? Your researches into the influences which formed the past and present generation seem to include no other intellectual or spiritual stimulations.
I do not know if my own case as an artist is of any interest, but I can say that after the Gospels, the things which have coloured and formed my life have been principally these : Michelangelo's Sistine roof, his "Lorenzo,' "Dawn," and "Night," of the Medici Sacristy, and his dome of St. Peter's ; Mozart's Magic Flute and G minor Quintet ; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and the posthumous Quartets ; as well as Giorgione's "Pastoral" in the Louvre, the "Camera della Segnatura " of Raphael, and the glories of the late Turner's atmospheric colour.—I am, Sir, &c., ,41001""
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