"Endless Yet Never is not exhaustive; nor psychological; nor even interpretative. Instead it sets out the primary facts of the artist's life in chronological order, relates those facts to the work he did and suggests what his influences, his preoccupations and his ambitions at any given time might have been. The virtue of concision in the re-telling of a life is the opportunity it gives to identify the main lines without seeking to explain them. Biography may be an imperfect form; but it can show the trajectory of a soul and also say something about the character of that soul's journey. This is what Endless Yet Never tries to do."--Back cover.