The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful after all.

I am still learning.

I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as an equal, and it is all I ask.

-- Berthe Morisot

Painting must capture the movement of life.

-- Wu Daozi

What I am looking for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the mystery of the instinct of the human race.

-- Amedeo Modigliani

Mountains are the bones of the earth; clouds are its breath.

-- Yokoyama Taikan

Tradition is not a prison; it is a foundation.

-- Yokoyama Taikan

Truth, not appearance.

-- Diego Velázquez