I paint 'em because they happen to be the thing in Nature that thrills me most.

And when I fire to a thing, most always I can manage somehow.

You yourself have engineered for me every profitable commission I've ever had.

What's more, Kenny, if ever once you'd put into real art the dreadful energy I've put into my mediocrity--" "You mean I'm lazy ?" interrupted Kenny, bristling.
"Certainly not," said Brian with acid politeness.

"You're merely subject to periodic fits of indolence.