To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

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

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.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

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

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.

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