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 would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.