"Painting embraces and contains within itself all..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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

“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.”

“It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.”

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

“If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it”

“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”

“Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.”

“If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”

“Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.”