It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Our life is made by the death of others.