Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.