I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Time is the author of authors.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.