No man knows he is young while he is young.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.