A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
