"Painting is concerned with the ten things..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”

“We ought not to desire the impossible.”

“He who can copy can do.”

“I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.”

“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.”

“Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.”

“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.”

“The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.”

“I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.”