The Faith of an Artist

First published in 1962, The Faith of an Artist presents assembled personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius in the present generation- poets, painters, architects and dramatists, novelists, and composers. Graham Greene, Picasso and Le Corbusier speak directly to us of their lives,and artistic endeavours,.

John Wilson

Preface 1. Robert Graves from the Crowning Privilege 2. C. Day Lewis from A Hope for Poetry 3. John Masefield from So Long to Learn 4. Stephen Spender from World Within World 5. Arthur Miller from Introduction to Collected Plays 6. Sean O'Casey from Sunset to Evening Star 7. Jean Cocteau from La Difficulte d' Etre 8. Graham Greene from Why do I Write? 9. C. S. Lewis from Surprised by Joy 10. Somerset Maugham from A Writer's Notebook 11. Paul Hindemith from a Composer's World 12. Leopold Stokowski from Music for All of Us 13. Igor Stravinsky from Poetics of Music 14. Vaughan Williams from National Music 15. Paul Klee from Klee on Modern Art 16. Pablo Picasso from Picasso - Fifty years of His Art 17. Jacob Epstein from Let There be Sculpture 18. Eric Gill from Art Nonsense and Other Essays 19. Walter Gropius from the New Architecture 20. Bernard Leach from A Potter's Book 21. Le Corbusier from The Four Routes