I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.
