I would rather be first to paint ugliness than second to paint beauty.

The painter of painters.

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

-- Berthe Morisot

Painting must capture the movement of life.

-- Wu Daozi

What I am looking for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the mystery of the instinct of the human race.

-- Amedeo Modigliani

Mountains are the bones of the earth; clouds are its breath.

-- Yokoyama Taikan

I would rather be first to paint ugliness than second to paint beauty.

-- Diego Velázquez

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

-- El Greco