If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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.

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

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.