“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” – Raoul Dufy

“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.” – Hosea Ballou

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” – Charles Baudelaire

“Art is the daughter of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” – C. S. Lewis