He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.