Everything against him-just a lout among the woodside louts, an orphan baited and lathered by a boozy stepfather, a tortured animal that ran into the thickets for safety, a thing with scarce a value or promise inside it except the little flame of courage that blows could not extinguish!
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He was pretty boozy last night, eh?"
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Also, unlike the theories of the mere craftsman, his are based always on the assumption that there is such a thing as art-something that is created by and appeals to peculiar faculties, something rare and personal, something not to be had simply by taking thought and pains, something as utterly unlike honest craftsmanship as it is unlike the cryptic mutterings of boozy mountebanks: subject, however, to this assumption, his theories are severely practical.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell