Join this Discussion Also, submit your poetry in the Poet's Corner , hosted by volunteers from the League of Canadian Poets. She arrived bearing a beautifully bound copy of Painting as a Pastime , a bound essay from Winston S. Churchill's longer book Amid These Storms . Printed in 1932, Painting as a Pastime includes beautiful colour reproductions of Churchill's paintings, all of which are extraordinary.
Painting is complete as a distraction.
I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. It is only when new cells are called into activity, when new stars become the lords of the ascendant, that relief, repose, refreshment are afforded. The canvas grinned in helplessness before me the sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim with berserk fury. I have never felt any awe of the canvas since.