A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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.

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

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.