But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Copy QuoteThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Copy Quote View & ShareI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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