“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” – George Santayana

“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.” – Khalil Gibran

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” – Havelock Ellis

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” – Paul Valery

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” – Thomas Browne

“Flowers are happy things.” – P. G. Wodehouse

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” – Quintilian