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.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

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.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.