"A Good in Itself"

New Remnant #8, 8 x 10 inches. Walnut ink on cut clayboard, with chicken feather.

"St. Thomas Aquinas says that art does not require rectitude of the appetite, that it is wholly concerned with the good of that which is made. He says that a work of art is a good in itself, and this is a truth that the modern world has largely forgotten." -- Flannery O'Connor

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