Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.