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

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

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.