His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business as it were and I use almost pure turpentine to start with adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help and that's my method.