The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.