one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
The more specific you are, the more universal you are.
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.
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.