“I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.” – Max Muller

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.” – William Hazlitt

“Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.” – Samuel Butler

“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.” – Tadao Ando

“There is nothing new in art except talent.” – Anton Chekhov

“We must return to nature and nature’s god.” – Luther Burbank

“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.” – Philip Guston

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.” – Theodore Bikel

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe