There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.