Greatest quote for artists

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as you paintbrush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of your art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

 ~Mark Rothko in Red