Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.