“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer

“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” – Samuel Butler

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” – Roy Lichtenstein

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” – Claude Debussy

“If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.” – John Burnside

“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.” – Henri Rousseau

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” – Le Corbusier

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.” – Chief Joseph

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” – John Stuart Mill