Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt
rather than seen.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.