In lieu of anything of real interest to post from me personally right now, I thought I’d throw this beautiful passage from the very end of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse on here, one of the best pieces of writing ever depicting an artist’s transcendence through the act of creation:

“Quickly, as if she were recalled by something over there, she turned to her canvas. There it was - her picture. Yes, with all its greens and blues, its lines running up and across, its attempt at something. It would be hung in attics, she thought; it would be destroyed. But what did that matter? she asked herself, taking up her brush again. She looked at the steps; they were empty; she looked at her canvas; it was blurred. With a sudden intensity, as if she saw it clear for a second, she drew a line there, in the centre. It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.”