"I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective."

“It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.”

“Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.”

“Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

“Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”

“Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold (1860). “The Brownrigg Papers”, p.394

“The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.”

“I don't intend to retire.”