“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.” – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” – Voltaire

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” – D. H. Lawrence

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” – John Ruskin

“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” – Paul Klee

“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.” – Charles Eames

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” – Alfred de Vigny

“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” – Wallace Stevens

“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.” – Diogenes