“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.” – Augustus Hare

“Autumn’s the mellow time.” – William Allingham

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” – Charles Lindbergh

“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” – Arthur Young

“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.” – Friedrich Schiller