"The painter of the future will be a colorist in a way no one has
been before." Vincent Van Gogh 

"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. "
Hans Hofmann

"Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."
Vincent Van Gogh

"Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes."
Vincent Van Gogh

"Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph." Vincent Van Gogh