Ricardo Cortés

“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”
― Henri Matisse

“I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.”
― Henri Matisse