It is important to express oneself, provided the feelings are real and taken from your own experience.

I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as an equal, and it is all I ask.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

-- Gian Lorenzo Bernini

To paint as I see, not as others wish me to see.

-- El Greco

I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.

-- Paul Cézanne

Light is the sovereign remedy to which all the rules of art must submit.

-- Johannes Vermeer

Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, fluttering happily about, unaware he was Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and there he was, unmistakably Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly was dreaming it was Zhou.

-- Zhuang Zhou

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

-- Oprah Winfrey