The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
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