“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman

“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” – Edna Ferber

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.” – Arthur Erickson

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats

“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus