Word: swelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beware of Swelling. Old John Marin winces at the word. "Don't try to be great," he keeps saying in his letters, "don't try to be important." He recounts how one day, looking at his pictures, his own head began to swell: "It swelled enormously-came near killing me . . ." Nevertheless, like any really fine artist, Marin knows full well the quality of his best work and he cannot help resenting those...