There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind. . . a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something. '"
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.