Originality consists in returning to the origin.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

The hidden harmony is stronger than the visible.

-- Heraclitus

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

Fashion fades, but style endures.

-- Coco Chanel

A man always has two reasons for the things he does -- a good one, and the real one.

-- J. P. Morgan

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionary.

-- Paul Gauguin