Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.