Do not fear perfection. You will never reach it.

Painting requires continuous thought and tireless labor.

Art does not need us, but we need art.

-- Kazimir Malevich

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

-- Antoni Gaudí

Originality consists in returning to the origin.

-- Antoni Gaudí

I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.

-- El Greco

I invent nothing; I rediscover.

-- Auguste Rodin

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