I shut my eyes in order to see.

~Paul Gauguin~

White does not exist in Nature.

~Pierre-Auguste Renoir~

“Creativity takes Courage”

~Henri Matisse~

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

~Georgia O’Keeffe~

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

~Frida Kahlo

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance man.” Today he remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through”      – Jackson Pollock

Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.^[67]

The medium in which Picasso made his most important contribution was painting.^[68] In his paintings, Picasso used color as an expressive element, but relied on drawing rather than subtleties of color to create form and space.^[68] He sometimes added sand to his paint to vary its texture. A nanoprobe of Picasso’s The Red Armchair (1931) by physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 confirmed art historians’ belief that Picasso used common house paint in many of his paintings.^[69] Much of his painting was done at night by artificial light.