"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"The mind of the painter is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating countless forms of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and other things."

"The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if it were not a traditional custom and if there were no pretty faces and sensuous…"

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most of it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, you do something else. The thing that works, you do more of."