What beauty is, I know not.

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

This is my scepter.

Art does not need us, but we need art.

-- Kazimir Malevich

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

Light is the sovereign remedy to which all the rules of art must submit.

-- Johannes Vermeer

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters.

-- Francisco Goya

Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.

-- Pablo Picasso