“Art is the signature of civilizations.” – Beverly Sills

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” – Albert Camus

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” – Anatole France

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” – Langston Hughes

“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