“Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello

“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.” – Zhuangzi

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?” – Emil Cioran

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.” – Adlai Stevenson I