The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.