“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Life without love, is no life at all.

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

He who thinks little errs much.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I bear the fruits of your memory in the expression of my art for that is what you gave to the world.

Staring into the abyss full of art – hoping for the return of a glimmer or a spark.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

The truth and the facts aren’t necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.