“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” – Max Eastman

“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.” – Charles Eastman

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” – Johannes Kepler

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.” – Evelyn Waugh

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.” – Lincoln Steffens

“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.” – Marilyn French

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.” – Edward Hopper