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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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47. the Music School were unfortunately high and out of range. And since it was impossible to carry out the combination, I was satisfied to go on with art alone. It was a pity, but there seemed no other way. I would give up everything else, but never painting. It has been my first and last aspiration - to be an artist! However, I greatly regret not having been able to combine these two. They are ever compatible. Singing would be a grand companion, and an excellent balance, and an impelling force for me in a painting profession. Even then it is not possible to define a line of demarcation between these two. The painting with notes; the painting with oils - it is truly difficult to separate them. I have always felt a generous overlapping of the two arts for the one begins long before the other is ended. A painting, is it not possible for it to have the rhythm of symphonic music and the lyrical quality of a song? "Extra-curricular" activities of high-school days included the chorus and glee club, the literary societies and the girls' basket-ball team.
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47. the Music School were unfortunately high and out of range. And since it was impossible to carry out the combination, I was satisfied to go on with art alone. It was a pity, but there seemed no other way. I would give up everything else, but never painting. It has been my first and last aspiration - to be an artist! However, I greatly regret not having been able to combine these two. They are ever compatible. Singing would be a grand companion, and an excellent balance, and an impelling force for me in a painting profession. Even then it is not possible to define a line of demarcation between these two. The painting with notes; the painting with oils - it is truly difficult to separate them. I have always felt a generous overlapping of the two arts for the one begins long before the other is ended. A painting, is it not possible for it to have the rhythm of symphonic music and the lyrical quality of a song? "Extra-curricular" activities of high-school days included the chorus and glee club, the literary societies and the girls' basket-ball team.
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