My career as a painter was discouraged at the age of six by the grown-ups, and I had never learned to draw anything except boa constrictors, outside and inside.

六岁的时候，大人们让我对我的画家生涯失去了勇气，除了画过蟒蛇肚皮的里面和外面，后来再没学过画其他东西。