"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult.
It demands that you know how to draw well, that you 
    have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, 
and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." 
Author Unknown

"The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings 
about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to 
everyone who views the picture through the intensity 
with which it is felt."   Lucien Freud