Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.

Problems are very complicated when you don't know the solutions.

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

Don't worry about how inexperienced you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lord's help, you can become.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die