“The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.” WritingIdeasStoriesBrainLet MeObsession Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.” DoeStoriesPaintingPaintOilDecadesObsessionPainterIncompleteThickness Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is