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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” 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.” A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Water is the driving force of all nature. You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
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