Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Knowledge is power.

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

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.