“I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.” – Balthus

“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” – E. O. Wilson

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” – Michelangelo

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” – Oscar Wilde

“Moonlight is sculpture.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.” – Walter Gilbert

“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.” – Robert Mapplethorpe

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.” – Edward Young