I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

We cannot contemplate a scenario where we would stay at Dolphins Stadium beyond 2010.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.