The color kittens

The illustrations by the Provensens are part of the foundation of my ideas of beauty. The dream-pale rose tree still represents to me the highest ideal of beauty, an ideal which still lurks in the back of my aesthetic sense and colors all my judgments about beauty and desirability. I am grateful to my mother for deliberately giving me books of great artistic worth. This was one of the sillier of them, but of lasting importance.

The words are nice, but largely irrelevant.