I would not be content to be considered a mere imitator of nature.

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

Art does not need us, but we need art.

-- Kazimir Malevich

Color is my daily obsession, my joy and my torment.

-- Claude Monet

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

I do not wish to be called divine while alive.

-- Titian