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Authors: Rachel Corbett

152
   
“poor Rilke” . . . “difficult person”:
William Rothenstein,
Since Fifty
. Volume 3. London: Faber & Faber, 1939, 314–315.

152
   
“When he was through”:
Lou Tellegen,
Women Have Been Kind: The Memoirs of Lou Tellegen
. New York: Vanguard, 1931, 80.

152
   
“always called a spade”:
Quoted in FG, 564.

153
   
“uneducated, coarse” . . . “very much beneath”:
Anthony Ludovici, online excerpt from
Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
. Edited by John V. Day. Counter-Currents.

153
   
“unflinching sympathy”:
PR, vii.

153
   
“the proverbial”:
Anthony M. Ludovici, “Rilke's Rodin.”
London Forum
, 1.1, 1946, 41–50.

154
   
“Monsieur Rodin”:
RSG, 480.

154
   
“in a violent quarrel”:
Anthony Ludovici, online excerpt from
Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
. Edited by John V. Day. Counter-Currents.

154
   
“the demands” . . . “to say anything”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 28, 1907.

155
   
“Rilke was much”:
Anthony M. Ludovici, “Rilke's Rodin.”
London Forum
, 1.1, 1946, 41–50.

155
   
“I'm not Modersohn”:
PMB, 384.

156
   
“happy”:
To Clara Westhoff, May 12, 1906

156
   
“I am profoundly”:
To Auguste Rodin, May 12, 1906.

156
   
“a private secretary” . . . “in reality a”
: LB, 78.

156
   
“It was not to your” . . . “I understand”:
To Auguste Rodin, May 12, 1906.

156
   
“what should have”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 14, 1906.

157
   
“It's Modersohn”:
Quoted in Diane Radycki,
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013, 136.

157
   
“Please spare both”:
PMB, 408.

158
   
“kneel down”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 29, 1906.

158
   
“What do you know”:
Rainer Maria Rilke, “L'Ange du Méridien.”
New Poems
. Translated by Edward Snow. New York: Macmillan, 2001, 5.

159
   
“This is no figure of a son”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Rodin and Other Prose Pieces
. Translated by G. Craig Houston. London: Quartet Books, 1986, 39.

159
   
“This last period”:
To Karl von der Heydt, July 31, 1906.

160
   
“interior marriage”:
LP, 175.

161
   
“I will not give up”:
To Clara Westhoff, December 17, 1906.

161
   
“To be loved”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
. Translation by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Vintage, paperback, 1985, 250.

161
   
“Since that first contact”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. London: Macmillan, 1946, 115.

162
   
“I have again stored”:
To Elisabeth von der Heydt, February 10, 1907.

162
   
“My god”:
RAS, 192.

162
   
“the space around”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters to a Young Poet
. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Random House, 1984, 40.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

164
   
“in a contact” . . . “in a sudden”:
Wilhelm Worringer,
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997, xvi–xvii

165
   
“more editions”:
Ursula Helg, “ ‘Thus we forever see the ages as they appear mirrored in our spirits': Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraction and Empathy as :longseller, or the birth of artistic modernism from the spirit of the imagined other.”
Journal of Art Historiography
, number 12, June 2015, 3.

165
   
“the effect of establishing”:
Wilhelm Worringer,
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997, xxx.

165
   
“in absolute agreement”:
Quoted in Neil H. Donahue,
Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer
. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, 1.

166
   
“Finally, for once”:
Quoted in Neil H. Donahue,
Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer
. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, 70.

166
   
“little cubes”:
Quoted in Alex Danchev,
Georges Braque: A Life
. New York: Arcade, 2005, 79.

166
   
“weapons” . . . “Les Demoiselles”:
André Malraux,
Picasso's Mask
. Boston: Da Capo, 1995, 11.

167
   
“Spanish in origin”:
Quoted in Mary Ann Caws,
Pablo Picasso
. Clerkenwell: Reaktion, 2005, 32.

167
   
“young people want” . . . “striving for”:
Herman Bernstein,
With Master Minds: Interviews
. New York: Universal Series, 1913, 126.

167
   
“For the majority”:
Quoted in Leaving Rodin behind? Sculpture in Paris, 1905
–
1914
. Edited by Catherine Chevillot. Paris: Musee d'Orsay, 2009.

167
   
“When I began to” . . . “His works”:
FG, 578.

168
   
“nothing grows”:
Quoted in David W. Galenson,
Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 115.

168
   
“It is impossible”:
Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon,
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 88.

168
   
“He told me I”:
Dorothy M. Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven A. Nash,
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007, 106.

168
   
“fuss over it”:
André Gide,
Journals: 1889
–
1913
. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000, 174.

168
   
“merely showed” . . . “He could not”:
Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam,
Matisse on Art
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 126.

169
   
“the reverse” . . . “replacing explanatory”:
Jean Leymarie,
Henri Matisse
, Issue 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966, 20.

169
   
“a man of the Middle Ages”:
Catherine Lampert,
Rodin
. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, 15.

169
   
“At home, I have” . . . “talk to me”:
Jennifer Gough-Cooper,
Apropos Rodin
. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006, 56.

170
   
“Stripped of all”:
RSG, 407.

171
   
“wonderful palace” . . . “my daughter”:
Mary French,
Memories of a Sculptor's Wife
. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928, 203.

171
   
“a young American”:
FG, 530.

171
   
“astonishing how”:
JA, 495.

171
   
“was not among his best”:
FG, 570.

171
   
“All the world sees”:
Helen Zimmern, “Auguste Rodin Loquitur.”
The Critic
, volume 41, 1902, 518.

172
   
“no vertical lines”:
Quoted in Jerry Saltz,
Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns
. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2003, 38.

172
   
“the Professor”:
Quoted in Hilary Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869
–
1908
. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001,378.

172
   
“I have simply”:
Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam,
Matisse on Art
. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995, 81.

174
   
“An uproarious horde”:
Quoted in Francis Steegmuller,
Cocteau: A Biography
. New York: Little, Brown, 1970, 38.

174
   
“to mark the end”:
Jean Cocteau,
Paris Album: 1900
–
1914
. London: W. H. Allen, 1956, 134.

CHAPTER TWELVE

176
   
“a night café” . . . “overpowers”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 7, 1907.

177
   
“I couldn't go away”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 13, 1907.

177
   
“no longer so full” . . . “the sort of woman”:
PMB, 413.

177
   
“Poor little creature”:
PMB, 409.

177
   
“If only we can”:
PMB, 418.

177
   
“inattentive”:
Quoted in Kaja Silverman,
Flesh of My Flesh
. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009, 72.

178
   
“strange and”:
To Clara Westhoff, August 30, 1907.

178
   
“would have been an” . . . “through the circumstances”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 26, 1907.

178
   
“I at once grasped”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 19, 1907.

179
   
“with sharply bent”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 21, 1907.

179
   
“tar and turpentine” . . . “scream the”:
To Clara Westhoff, September 13, 1907.

179
   
“Salon de Bouguereau”:
Alex Danchev,
Cézanne: A Life
. New York: Pantheon, 2012, 3.

179
   
“color-drunk”:
Jacqueline Munck, “Vollard and the Fauves: Derain and Vlaminck.”
Cézanne to Picasso
. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, 127.

180
   
“laughed themselves”:
Quoted in Hilary Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869
–
1908
. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001, 371.

180
   
“as if at a bad”:
LC, 31.

180
   
“unquestioning, matter-of-fact”:
LC, 74–75.

181
   
“All of reality”:
LC, 27.

181
   
“the first and ultimate” . . . “The interior”:
LC, 71.

181
   
“that painting is made”:
LC, 28.

181
   
“gray” . . . “I should have”:
LC, 76.

181
   
“Not since Moses”:
Quoted in LC, x.

181
   
“thunderstorm blue” . . . “wet dark”:
LC, xix–xx.

182
   
“Homeric elders”:
Anna A. Tavis, “Rilke and Tolstoy: The Predicament of Influence.”
The German Quarterly
, 65.2, Spring 1992, 192–200.

182
   
“so totally”:
JA, 539.

182
   
“I will astonish”:
Paul Cézanne,
Conversations with Cézanne
. Edited by P. Michael Doran. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001, 6.

182
   
“It is the turning”:
LC, 57.

182
   
“the right eyes”:
LC, 39.

182
   
“You can imagine” . . . “I know much”:
To Clara Westhoff, October 19, 1907.

183
   
“It was his task” . . . “whether you can”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
. Translation by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Vintage, paperback, 1985, 72.

183
   
“lines like reliefs:”
AR, 29.

183
   
“through his own”:
LC, 305.

184
   
“This angel is a figure”:
Hans Belting,
The Invisible Masterpiece
. Translated by Helen Atkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, 247.

185
   
“in a state of blissful” . . . “For me”:
FG, 520.

185
   
“ghastly old ladies”:
RL, 232.

185
   
“pitiful, pleasure-seeking”:
To Valery David-Rhonfeld, December 4, 1894.

185
   
“like a relapse”:
LB, 83.

186
   
“just as factually”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 4, 1907.

186
   

très belle
”:
BT, 193.

186
   
“We have need” . . . “so many”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 11, 1907. [Translated from French in a note.]

186
   
“I could hardly believe” . . . “The dear”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 11, 1907.

186
   
“I have an infinite” . . . “I am proud”:
BT, 193.

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