Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.