It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."