Once, in a fit of melancholic vanity, I burned my report card in the sink of the KFC where I worked scraping carbonized grease from the pressure cookers.

NEWYORKER: Where I Learned To Read

For the first 20 years of his active career, Redon worked almost entirely in black, using charcoal and grease pencil and eventually producing lithographs of images as dark as their media.

WSJ: Gary Geipel: The Late Blooming of Odilon Redon