A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know