“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
“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.”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble…”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
