"To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale."

"We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only …"

"Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies."

"One of the things I really love about Édouard Vuillard is that his paintings are often small, with domestic and rarel…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"More and more, we are being required to know what are the implications of living in a society that is increasingly di…"

"[A] painting presents its own battle, its own requirements. And a print is never a reproduction of a painting. It mak…"

"When you're painting, nobody else knows what you're doing and you're the only one who understands it. You've got to h…"

"I couldn't imagine painting anyone I didn't like. When people do appear in my paintings, they're always people for wh…"

"Being an artist is submitting to the learning that comes from being a mother. It's all the better for the work in the…"