← I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and I asked them if my drawing scared them. 🔊✎
← My drawing wasn’t supposed to be a hat. It was supposed to be a boa constrictor who had swallowed an elephant.
← When I find one who seems a bit different from the others, I try the experiment of showing them my drawing number 1, which I’ve always kept. I want to know if they really understand anything. 🔊✎
← Here is the best drawing I was able to make of him later: 🔊✎
← But my drawing, I can tell you, is far less charming than the original. 🔊✎
← I made yet another drawing. But it was also turned down like the others: 🔊✎
← It’s hard to start drawing again at my age, if all you’ve ever done are two pictures of a boa constrictor from the outside and from the inside, when you were six. 🔊✎
← I want to make my drawings as true to life as I can. 🔊✎
← This drawing is not too bad, that one just doesn’t look like him at all. 🔊✎
← I have made this drawing to tell you about a terrible danger that’s been right next to us, which you, or I for that matter, didn’t even know was there. 🔊✎