A painter must work for the taste of his own day. How does he know what people will like two or three hundred years hence? I maintain that a man should hold up the mirror to his own times.

John Everett Millais

As I entered your house

This was framed above your door

Why do you have it there

That is quite simple John

I have painted many mirrors

I have written about many mirrors

But your canvasses are blank

And your poetry appears on blank pages


If you do not like what you see then turn away