Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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.