“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs

“And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.” – Roy Bean

“Painting completed my life.” – Frida Kahlo

“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” – Walter Scott

“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.” – John Updike

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” – George Jean Nathan

“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.” – Jack Levine

“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon