“Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.” – John Dryden

“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.” – Balthus

“I paint as if I were Rothschild.” – Paul Cezanne

“The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.” – Dennis Banks

“With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.” – Henri Matisse

“Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.” – Virgil

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon

“I will preach with my brush.” – Henry Ossawa Tanner