To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
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.
Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.
Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.
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.