“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” – Winston Churchill

“The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.” – Hannah Arendt

“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.” – Edward Steichen

“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” – Malcolm de Chazal

“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” – Samuel Butler

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” – Jean Cocteau

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” – Vladimir Nabokov