audacity

"...She grabbed the brush out of his hand, went for the blue, and within a minute had the sky on the canvas. The spell had been broken."

- what Lady Orpen did when she saw her neighbor, Winston Churchill, frozen before his canvas

"We must not be too ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint box. And, for this, Audacity is the ticket."

- Churchill, Painting as a Pastime