“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin

“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” – John James Audubon

“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.” – Gustave Courbet

“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.” – Pierre Bonnard

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” – Susan Sontag

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” – Aldous Huxley

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” – Frank Zappa