“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” – M. C. Escher

“Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” – George Santayana

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” – Juvenal

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” – Havelock Ellis

“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.” – Khalil Gibran

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” – Paul Valery