You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

In charity there is no excess.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.