In painting, the most important things cannot be taught.

I do not wish to be called divine while alive.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

-- Pythagoras

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

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