The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.