What beauty is, I know not.

For truly art lies hidden in nature; whoever can draw it out possesses it.

A good painter is inwardly full of figures.

I make money by trying to buy stocks cheaply. If that makes me a raider, so be it.

-- Carl Icahn

I would not be content to be considered a mere imitator of nature.

-- El Greco

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings, because people have cheated me.

-- Artemisia Gentileschi

The brush must move with the mind, not the hand.

-- Sesshū Tōyō