The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

Family, can’t live with them, can’t orbitally bombard them back to the foul, oozing proto-plasma they crawled out of, I thought grimly.

Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn’t remember selling it, least she wasn’t rich, but perhaps it wasn’t worth much.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth