“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” – Thomas Browne

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” – Quintilian

“Flowers are happy things.” – P. G. Wodehouse

“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.” – Zhuangzi

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” – Ansel Adams

“Art is anything you can get away with.” – Marshall McLuhan

“One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.” – Loren Eiseley

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Satchel Paige

“I paint with shapes.” – Alexander Calder

“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.” – Michelangelo