Mad King

"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" -- William Shakespeare
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Mad King [detail]

"He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath." -- William Shakespeare
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Demonstrative proof

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done." -- William Faulkner
[felt tip, tracing paper, Photoshop]

Cheers

"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism." -- E.M. Forster
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Beseeching

"Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all."-- Bible quote
[charcoal, Photoshop]

Hector

"What’s past and what’s to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion;
But in this extant moment, faith and truth,
Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing,
Bids thee, with most divine integrity,
From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome!"-- Shakespeare
[blue pencil]

Rebel smoke

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."-- Albert Camus

[pen & ink, Photoshop]