“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” – Saadi

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” – J. Paul Getty

“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.” – Hans Hofmann

“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?” – Roy Rogers

“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.” – Andrew Wyeth

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.” – Robert Fortune

“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.” – Walter Annenberg

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” – Robert Bridges

“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?” – Alfred de Vigny

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson