People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.