I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

All colours will agree in the dark.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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