“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.” – Robert Fortune Blossoms and Beyond: The Universal Love Affair with Flowers

“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.” – Andrew Wyeth The Art of Technique: A Love Letter to Substance

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” – Robert Bridges A Whiff of Imagination: The Scent of Summer Gardens

“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.” – Walter Annenberg The Art of Not Being a Pathetic Investor: Why Viewing Art as Currency is a Missed Brushstroke

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Hidden Stuff: Nature’s Ultimate Secret Sauce

“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?” – Alfred de Vigny The Art of Being Unartistic: Why Imitation is Not Always the Sincerest Form of Flattery

“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.” – Steve Lacy The Art of Collaboration: Where Undefined Magic Happens

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – R. Buckminster Fuller The Caterpillar Conundrum: Embracing Your Inner Butterfly

“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.” – Martin Kippenberger The Canvas of Life: Why Entertainment is the Color in Our Artistic Journey

“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.” – Plautus The Currency of Life: When Nature is Your Wallet