He is a lyric poet. . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt. . . right. I felt free.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.