God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.