“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.” – Flannery O’Connor

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” – Alexander Smith

“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

“Wherever art appears, life disappears.” – Robert Motherwell

“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” – James Joyce

“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.” – James Taylor

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” – Victor Hugo