“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.” – Hosea Ballou

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” – Charles Baudelaire

“Art is the daughter of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” – C. S. Lewis

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.” – Constantin Stanislavski

“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.” – Nikolai Gogol

“Insight is the first condition of Art.” – George Henry Lewes

“A weed is but an unloved flower.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox