Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

Savage is he who saves himself.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.