Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Nature is usually wrong.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.