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.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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.

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

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

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