“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?” – Emil Cioran

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.” – Adlai Stevenson I

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.” – Henry Kissinger

“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.” – Ashley Montagu

“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.” – Hosea Ballou

“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.” – Corita Kent