After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.
In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.
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.