The painter paints not what he sees but what he will see.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in rendering light.

The only thing I care about is my painting.

-- Berthe Morisot

Art does not need us, but we need art.

-- Kazimir Malevich

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

-- Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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

-- El Greco

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