I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.
It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise. ' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better.
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you feel in tile mood for it. That is all nonsense. I frequently have to force myself to make a start in the morning; but after a short while I find I can work. Only hard and regular work will bring success.
Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.