Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.