“One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.” – Balthus

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal

“All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“I am not strong on perfection.” – Jasper Johns

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” – D. H. Lawrence

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.” – Henri Matisse

“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.” – Adolf Loos

“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.” – Bhumibol Adulyadej

“An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.” – James Whistler

“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” – Paul Cezanne