Some Artists I Admire

A list of personal favorites, for no good reason other than that I would like to write about them:

• Ezra Pound
• Louis Sullivan
• Claude Bragdon
• Francesco Borromini
• John Coltrane
• Billie Holiday
• Pola Negri
• Joni Mitchell
• Charles Ives
• Tennessee Williams
• Eugene O'Neill
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Caravaggio
• Eugene Delacroix
• Charles Dickens
• Thomas Hardy
• Victor Hugo

What links these artists, besides my taste for their work? Perhaps it is that all are -- to some extent -- difficult and challenging artists, whose work has been controversial, whose aims have outreached their grasps, who in different ways have been misunderstood, neglected, undervalued.

In my eyes, at least.