“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” – James Joyce

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” – Victor Hugo

“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.” – James Taylor

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.” – Pablo Picasso

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.” – Aesop

“From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.” – Bill Watterson

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton