Life is an art, and you are the artist.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.