If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Émile Zola

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes. John Singer Sargent

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. William Shakespeare

Technique should always hide itself modestly behind the thing expressed. Lowell Birge Harrison