I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this one!" Not in terms of any given story, and certainly not in terms of the collection as a whole.
The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.