Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.