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From "The Creative Impulse" 1906 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #16.9):
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I believe it should be the paramount endeavor of every educated man to express his own personality to the fullest extent possible in everything which he undertakes, to leave his own private mark on everything which goes out from under his hand.
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From "Is a New Laokoon Needed?" 1908 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #17.2):
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It is, therefore, in the power of the poet, painter or musician to remold mankind by combining and arranging color, sound and form; because the emotions thus created, though seemingly feeble and useless, are actually more powerful, of greater importance in the life of mankind, than armies and governments and the 'speculations of reason.'
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DETAIL, portrait of Samuel P. Capen by Wyndham Lewis, 1939
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