“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.” – Abu Bakr

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.” – Oscar Wilde

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” – William Hazlitt

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” – Robert Motherwell

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” – Rene Magritte