What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.