"artists always draw the saviour as an actor in one of the gospel stories. i should do differently. i should represent christ alone the disciples did leave him alone occasionally. i should paint one little child left with him. this child has been playing about near him, and had probably just been telling the saviour something in its pretty baby prattle. christ had listened to it, but was now musing one hand reposing on the child’s bright head. his eyes have a far-away expression. thought, great as the universe, is in them his face is sad.