“I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.”

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Nature is nobody’s ally.

You are so bizarre, even for a human. Thanks.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.