I want to be famous but unknown!

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

If my clone were a painter, he’d be an impressionist.

We don’t see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship’s captain. Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even...

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.