When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.