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.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.