“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.” – John Updike

“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” – Walter Scott

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” – George Jean Nathan

“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.” – Jack Levine

“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” – Marc Chagall

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon

“Nature can do more than physicians.” – Oliver Cromwell

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.” – Alfred Stieglitz