It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Strain your brain more than your eye. . . You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
The big artist. . . keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.
Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!
If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.