O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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.