Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look. . . . as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.