The Angels of Thomais (excerpt)
...Male angels of whom a few are lost in their gender know however that they are loved in the hands of the painter and they settle down in her colours. They admire their wings, showing them and showing themselves off through them. Their colours in perfect harmony and their size immense behind the frame. The painting holds little of the totality outside it; they fly freely, the clatter of their wings is easy to hear. The painter would have been erroneous to incarcerate the angels....
