Paris

"Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past."

(Michael Simpkins)

"Paris is a narcotic for man alone. A never-ending labyrinth where the anxiety of freedom is relieved."

(Frederico Castigliano) 

Selfie

"Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self portrait."

(Scott Kahn)

"And if what they say is true..if every great painting is really a self portrait..what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?"

(Donna Tartt. The Goldfinch)

Studio

"The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them , drawing and colour are better or worse than others."

(August Rodin)

"If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture, drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea-of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual."

(Jeff Koons)