There is no art without contemplation.

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.