The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.