“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

“Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“The groves were God’s first temples.” – William Cullen Bryant

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” – Carl Sandburg

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” – Andre Maurois

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

“Art is the signature of civilizations.” – Beverly Sills