If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.