“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” – Paul Cezanne

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.” – Freya Stark

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.” – Marianne Moore

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.” – Herbert Read

“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” – Voltaire

“Good design doesn’t date.” – Harry Seidler

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.” – Peter Max