Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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

-- Claude Monet

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

Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.

-- Edvard Munch

I do not wish to be called divine while alive.

-- Titian

Colors are the smiles of nature.

-- Titian