But I do not like the saints and martyrs in the throes of their agony, they say nothing to me, I have no sympathy for them.

I adore the Madonna and the Child; they touch me--here," and she laid her hand upon her heart.

"The Sassoferarto Virgin in the Reale Palazzo is like Miss Lutworth, she is full of kindness and youth.

The early masters' works, which are badly drawn and beautifully colored, I have to take apart--and it is unsatisfying.
Because, while I am trying not to see the wrong shape, I have only half my faculties to appreciate the exquisite colors, and so a third influence has to come in--the meaning of the artist who painted them and perhaps put into them his soul.

But that is altruistic--I could as well admire something of very bad art for the same reason.