“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” – Jean Giraudoux

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.” – Jean Paul

“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.” – Conrad Hall

“I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.” – Duke Kahanamoku

“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.” – Ellen Key

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” – Duke Ellington

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” – Carl Sagan