The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents.
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The army causes taxes, the taxes cause discontents, & the discontents are alledged to make an army necessary. Thus you go in a circle.
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow