Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.