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

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.