In painting, the most important things cannot be taught.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

On the stock exchange, anything is possible, including the opposite.

-- André Kostolany

The rich can speculate; the poor must not; the penniless have no choice but to speculate.

-- André Kostolany

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

Drawing is not form; it is the way of seeing form.

-- Edgar Degas