Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.