“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” – Francois Rabelais

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin

“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” – Michael Pollan

“Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello

“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.” – Zhuangzi

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne