Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The only thing I care about is my painting.

-- Berthe Morisot

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

-- Claude Monet

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble.

-- Auguste Rodin

The painter paints not what he sees but what he will see.

-- Johannes Vermeer

Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, fluttering happily about, unaware he was Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and there he was, unmistakably Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly was dreaming it was Zhou.

-- Zhuang Zhou

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

-- Oprah Winfrey