“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”

-Henri Matisse

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

-Salvador Dali

“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”

-Claude Monet

“Painting is meditative, photography is an immediate reaction.”

-Henri Cartier Bresson

“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for compassion and for colors, and that you be a true poet. The last is essential.”

-Wassily Kandinsky

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”

-M.C. Escher

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”

-Marc Chagall

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

-Henry Miller

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

-Ansel Adams