A painted surface is a real, living form.

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism.

I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.

-- El Greco

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping from a window in the time it takes him to fall, you will never produce great work.

-- Eugène Delacroix

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

-- Johannes Vermeer

A good painter is inwardly full of figures.

-- Albrecht Dürer

Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.

-- Pablo Picasso

The secret of art is to correct nature.

-- Sandro Botticelli