I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.