A painting is finished when the painter says it is finished.

Try to do what you cannot, so that you may learn how to do it.

Tradition is not a prison; it is a foundation.

-- Yokoyama Taikan

Color is, so to speak, what gives the painting its blood and its life.

-- Eugène Delacroix

Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.

-- Jack Dorsey

To paint a beautiful woman I would need to see many, but since beautiful women are scarce, I make use of a certain idea that comes to my mind.

-- Raphael

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

-- Linus Pauling

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

-- Albrecht Dürer