An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
I don't paint things as I see them; I paint things as I understand them.
Yo pinto las cosas no como las veo, sino como las pienso. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968)
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The purpose of life is to create and to procreate.
Anonymous