“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony.” – Guillaume Apollinaire

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” – David Hockney

“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” – Pablo Picasso

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.” – Novalis

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.” – William Cowper

“Nature was my kindergarten.” – William Christopher Handy

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.” – Henry Miller

“Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.” – James Lovelock