“ Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. Plutarch Biographer
“ The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. Plutarch Biographer
“ The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. Plutarch Biographer
“ A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Jorge Luis Borges Writer
“ In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
“ I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close. Gerhard Richter Visual Artist
“ Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. John Ruskin Art Critic
“ Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. Hippocrates Greek Physician