Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.