“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.” – Gian Carlo Menotti

“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams

“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” – John James Audubon

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.” – Richard Wright

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” – Robert Rauschenberg

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” – Marcel Proust

“The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.” – Henry Morton Stanley