“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”

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.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

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

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

I love to collect modern art.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.