I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos. '
A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero