Nhan Nguyen

“...no touch being gone over a second time, in spite of obvious lack of detail and other faults, for suggestion is everything in this kind of sketch.”
― Borough Johnson

“Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong, that it is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came. There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts. If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I saw only the village street, which is so familiar to me that I could walk down it blindfolded if I had a stick. A blind man died a few years back. Blind from birth, he could walk down to the village from the hamlet where he lived four kilometers away. The bees he kept gave more honey than any others in the village. And he axed his own wood on a chopping block, without ever cutting his hand.
At 11 A.M. it was sunny with a blue sky. The few white clouds were moving fast above the mountains. A north wind.
I saw the village street at that moment, as seen from the future. What I was seeing had become the distant past. This transformation was calm, so calm that it resembled a stillness.”
― John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

“...never forgetting that to arrive at freedom we must progress slowly through the mill of grinding, close study, and, to the serious student, many bitter disappointments.”
― Borough Johnson, The Technique of Pencil Drawing