“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.” – John Ruskin

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” – Voltaire

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” – Gwendolyn Brooks

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali

“The groves were God’s first temples.” – William Cullen Bryant

“Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” – Andre Maurois