“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.