Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

“No one is listening until you make a mistake.”

“Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.”

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

“When you’re right, no one remembers. When you’re wrong, no one forgets.”