You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.