Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave..
::: Constantin Brancusi :::
Since there is never enough time to do everything that needs to be done, you must be continually setting priorities on your activities..
::: Brian Tracy :::

My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.
::: Lucian Freud :::
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
::: Lucian Freud :::

One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility'.
::: Albert Einstein :::
The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existense.
::: Brett Whiteley :::

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
::: Francis Bacon :::
I may seem to be passionately concerned with the 'hows' of representation, how you actually represent rather than 'what' or 'why'. But to me this is inevitable. The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.
::: David Hockney :::

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul..
::: Henri Matisse :::
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
::: Robert Motherwell :::