Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

God's first creature, which was light.