Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.