Life being only a fraction of a second in eternity, one should at least make it bearable.

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

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

-- Berthe Morisot

Art that does not move the heart is not art.

-- Wu Daozi

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

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism.

-- Kazimir Malevich

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

-- Yokoyama Taikan