“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” – Alexander Pope

“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.” – Jean Ingelow

“The best artists know what to leave out.” – Charles de Lint

“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” – Emily Carr

“Man lives by imagination.” – Havelock Ellis

“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“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