The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic painting--say, one of Courbet's landscapes--is that in the latter ...there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painter's deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A cow does not know how much milk it has until the milkman starts working on it. Then it looks round in surprise and sees the pail... full to the brim. In the same way a writer has no idea how much he has to say till his pen draws it out of him. Thoughts will then appear on the paper that he is amazed to find that he possessed. "How brilliant!" he says to himself. "I had no idea I was so intelligent." But the reader may not be so im pressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Married love is a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth and flows underground. Something is there, but... one does not know what. Only the vegetation shows that there is still water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »