By Far The Best Proof Is Experience.

The More A Man Drinketh Of The World, The More It Intoxicateth.

There Is No Such Flatterer As Is A Man's Self.

I Paint For Myself. I Don't Know How To Do Anything Else, Anyway. Also I Have To Earn My Living, And Occupy Myself.

Write Down The Thoughts Of The Moment. Those That Come Unsought For Are Commonly The Most Valuable.

The Human Understanding Is Of Its Own Nature Prone To Suppose The Existence Of More Order And Regularity In The World Than It Finds. And Though There Be Many Things In Nature Which Are Singular And Unmatched, Yet It Devises For Them Parallels And Conjugates And Relatives Which Do Not Exist. Hence The Fiction That All Celestial Bodies Move In Perfect Circles, Spirals And Dragons Being (except In Name) Utterly Rejected.