Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

—Unknown

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

—Unknown

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

—Unknown

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

—Unknown

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

—Unknown

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

—George Bernard Shaw

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

—G. K. Chesterton

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

—Eugene Delacroix