I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.
The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.
Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?
The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.