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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication