“Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)”
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.”
“Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.” The Black Company pg 447”
“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.”