Quote of the day
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
Osbert Sitwell

Born: December 6, 1892
Died: May 4, 1969 (aged 76)
Bio: Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature.
Known for:
- The Scarlet Tree (1912)
- Tales my father taught me (1962)
- Noble Essences (1950)
- The four continents (1954)
- Escape with Me (1939)
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