Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

How difficult it is to be simple.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.