“On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.”

“God and other artists are always a little obscure…..”

“What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

“Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.”

“The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.”

“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”

“Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.”

“For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.”

“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”