“Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.”

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”

“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract.”

“This lamp that burns within letting me burn the grief, agony, confusion & bitterness before returning to the steady light that illumines.”

“The naive lose it in dark woods, but seek it under the street lamps.”

“Les romans sont la nourriture du cœur. Ce sont les lampes qui illuminent les ténèbres, la joie qui surpasse l’amour.”