“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” – Baltasar Gracian

“All nature wears one universal grin.” – Henry Fielding

“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.” – Edward Young

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” – William Butler Yeats

“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” – Bette Davis

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” – Khalil Gibran

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov