"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"In the depths of adversity, the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

"The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority."