Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.