In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Few people do business well who do nothing else
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves. . . . Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception. . . to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best. . . better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever. . . Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.
It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.