Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Boldness is a child of ignorance