There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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

Innovations, which are the births of time.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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.