"I have always been a man of many contradictions."

"One day, we'll wake up and we'll be old. And we'll be happy, or we'll be sad, or we'll be dead. But we'll be old."

"I am a man of the universe. I am a man of the cosmos."

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals…"

"Perhaps I am a man of the eighteenth century, living in the twentieth, who dreams of the future."