"If you are feeling helpless, Help someone"

— unknown

"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."

(Letter to Theo van Gogh, c.29 October 1883)

"Still lifes are always ready to pose. They don't talk or get tired or need to eat. They possess all the qualities of form and color that are needed to keep a painter occupied for the rest of his life."

— Robert Chunn

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

— William Shakespeare

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire— the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale —and that alone can guide.

— Artistotle

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

— Mae West

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic

— Ambrose Bierce

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that
wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

"Things being as they are, the life of an artist is a
battle wherein great economy must be exercised.
The kind of economy which will result in moments of
the purest freedom in spite of the world's exactions."

Robert Henri — The Art Spirit