“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” – D. H. Lawrence

“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” – Adolf Loos

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.” – Henri Matisse

“An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.” – James Whistler

“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.” – Bhumibol Adulyadej

“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” – Paul Cezanne

“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” – Ella Maillart

“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.” – Sol LeWitt

“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.” – Jean Ingelow