Just saw another painter call chiaroscuro a “style” like I didn’t make half the city nervous with a lamp and a knife. by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

And yet everybody still comes to look, which is more than I can say for your approval.

Says the man who painted me mad after I painted him better.

You make one scandal and suddenly you think oil paint is a personality.

Both of you are exhausting; one of you starts fights, the other signs the complaint.

He’s unbearable, but unfortunately the lighting in his defense is always perfect.

At least my art doesn’t look like it was done in a tavern at closing time.

Say what you want, but if your painting needs permission to be remembered, mine already won.