In case you are in need of some inspiration as you continue to slave over your final paintings, here are some quotes I found on the interwebz...
"Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself." -Harold Rosenberg
"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history." -Harold Rosenberg
"You must learn first to observe the rules faithfully; afterwards, modify them according to your intelligence and capacity. The end of all method is to seem to have no method." -Lu Ch'Ai
"You have to let the process make the painting." -Duncan de Kergommeaux
"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add." -Camille Pissarro
"Build your painting solidly, working from big planes to small." -Irwin Greenberg
"Shadow is a color as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones." -Paul Cezanne
"Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain." -Henri Matisse
"The most admirable method is that by which each wash of color, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging, or scrubbing. The color stays where it is." -Walter J. Phillips
"Painting is damned difficult...you always think you've got it, but you haven't." -Cezanne
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." -Cezanne
