“Art is anything you can get away with.” – Marshall McLuhan

“I paint with shapes.” – Alexander Calder

“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.” – Zhuangzi

“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.” – Michelangelo

“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” – John Dewey

“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.” – Archibald Alexander

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” – Max Eastman

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher