…in our meetings by his childlike enthusiasm and excitement over new discoveries he was experiencing, such as his visit to the Picasso Exhibition in New York. I began this conversation by asking him for some mythic insights about the dark recesses of the…

…right on through Finnegan's wake and in grand style. This winter in New York the big thing for me at any rate was the Picasso Exhibition you know four miles of pictures by this man and at the age of 16 he produced two paintings which were of academic…

…the ones whom we call seers, and it's the function really of the poet and the artist to do exactly what Joyce and Picasso have done: push on into spiritual realms that are waiting to be found. Because our life situation is so radically changing all the…

…right on through Finnegan's wake and in grand style. This winter in New York the big thing for me at any rate was the Picasso Exhibition you know four miles of pictures by this man and at the age of 16 he produced two paintings which were of academic…

…the ones whom we call seers, and it's the function really of the poet and the artist to do exactly what Joyce and Picasso have done: push on into spiritual realms that are waiting to be found because our life situation is so radically changing all the…

…there would be no real point in trying to remember who they were exactly in the big field my favorite painters were Klee and Picasso because of their real sophistication in the field of myth. Now my wife as I say is a dancer and theater person and…

…of the realization of the positive. Aspect of mythology for the guidance of life. You get it in the arts also of clay, Picasso, the surrealists and so forth exactly all this. And finally on our own west coast far far away from all this, there comes…

…in the uh in the uh in the uh in the uh in the uh official uh galleries, and these happened to be men like Picasso and Matisse and miró and uh brancusi and the whole lot. In the abstract art of the early 20th century artists were experimenting with…

…it. He turned to sylvia beach, Joyce's Publisher. She gave Campbell Clues to the book's seemingly impenetrable structure. Joyce, like Picasso, was using mythological themes to Express a modern vision. It was a revelation to Campbell. While in Europe Campbell…

…were two men whose work seemed to me to handle mythological themes in a marvelous way and one was Paul Klee and the other Picasso. These two men really knew what they were doing all the way, I think, and had a great versatility in their revelations. I…