Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.