If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

God loveth the clean.

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.