How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.