Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery).
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may...
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Today I am even richer.
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.