“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

“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” – John Dewey

“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.” – Archibald Alexander