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.

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

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

-- Johannes Vermeer

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings.

-- Nikolai Gogol

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

-- Walt Disney

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

-- Claude Monet