Although the first oil painting he sold was a portrait of Bill Clark's wife and child Clark bought it most of his paintings were of himself or of imaginary characters, usually black figures.
But that is hardly the only message in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," a cautionary tale about the price of fame (Sellers was increasingly reclusive toward the end of his life) and the penalty Sellers paid for trying to discover himself inside the trappings of imaginary characters.
Every year, my daughter and her friends pose to provide images of imaginary characters in an imaginary world.
Schumann's writing, like his music, reflects his deeply romantic nature; many of his articles describe the reactions of two imaginary characters of his own invention, representing different aspects of his character, whom he dubbed Florestan (impulsive and spontaneous) and Eusebius (inward and thoughtful).
In the next space, Renee French presents a series of separately framed, postcard-size portraits of bizarre imaginary characters, like a mush-headed mutant in a paisley sweater, rendered in pencil with exquisite refinement.
One of these imaginary characters keeps a diary, inspired by an uncle "who wrote a diary every day of his life for 60 years".
What matters is to learn to perceive property, people or situations in ways that reduce the temptation to lie, to steal or behave in a self-destructive way.In building his argument, Mr Brooks, a columnist on the New York Times, uses as his framework the lives of two imaginary characters, Harold and Erica, whom he follows from cradle to grave.
Of course, imaginary characters have as much substance in fiction as "actual" ones, so things do get muddled, and I would not be surprised to learn that I have got things in this show upside-down or backward.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, first published in 1984, is widely acknowledged to be his masterpiece – an account of the return to Lisbon of an imaginary character invented by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa after the death of his creator.
The creation of an imaginary character is related, I believe, to the explosion of linguistic abilities that occurs between the ages of two and four, and rapidly creates an excess of language, which the child may not have enough experience to match.
They do so either by denying that the responses in question are genuine emotions, or by denying that the targets of these responses are imaginary characters and situations.
