When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

In charity there is no excess.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.