The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.