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

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.