Creativity takes courage.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Color is my daily obsession, my joy and my torment.

-- Claude Monet

I wish I had been born blind and then recovered my sight, so I could paint without knowing what the objects before me were.

-- 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