“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall

“The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.” – Elias Hicks

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.” – Audre Lorde

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” – Victor Hugo

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.” – Flannery O’Connor

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” – Alexander Smith

“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.” – Elizabeth Bowen