All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. "To be known.

Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.

In school, I sat in the back, seldom raising my hand and never raising my voice. But the absence of verbal expression did not mean I was dull to the needs of others. Didn't mean I couldn't think and feel. Didn't absorb. I thought and felt just fine. Absorbed like a sponge. My peripheral vision was twenty-ten. I cried when strangers hurt. Laughed when others smiled.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question—simply curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class life. But then the middle classes are not modern.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Wouldn't you rather be asked a question than be given an order?

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.