“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.” – Robert Delaunay

“The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.” – Nikolai Gogol

“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.” – Edwin Way Teale

“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” – Emile Zola

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.” – Gian Carlo Menotti

“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams

“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” – John James Audubon

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.” – Richard Wright