I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

It is to be wished that the world were not deprived of those rare gifts which Heaven has bestowed.

I confess that I am by natural instinct better fitted to execute very large works than small curiosities.

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings, because people have cheated me.

-- Artemisia Gentileschi

I would not be content to be considered a mere imitator of nature.

-- El Greco

With an apple I want to astonish Paris.

-- Paul Cézanne

The brush must move with the mind, not the hand.

-- Sesshū Tōyō

This is my scepter.

-- Albrecht Dürer

Solving big problems is easier than solving small ones.

-- Sergey Brin