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

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

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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