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.

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

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

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

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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

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