“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.” – Richard Wright

“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” – John James Audubon

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” – Robert Rauschenberg

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” – Marcel Proust

“The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.” – Henry Morton Stanley

“It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.” – Andrew Wyeth

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” – John Lubbock

“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.” – Luis Barragan

“Things are beautiful if you love them.” – Jean Anouilh