“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.” – Robert Quillen

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” – Harry S Truman

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle

“I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.” – David Rockefeller

“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” – Alice Walker

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” – Joseph Joubert

“If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” – Bill Watterson

“‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’” – W. H. Auden

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.” – Elbert Hubbard