Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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

God loveth the clean.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.