“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.” – Max Eastman

“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.” – Rupert Brooke

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.” – Norman Douglas

“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.” – Henry Ossawa Tanner

“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.” – Giotto di Bondone