“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.” – Jean Paul

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.” – Alma Gluck

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” – John Keats

“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“Land really is the best art.” – Andy Warhol

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – Thomas Wolfe

“Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.” – Nicholas Culpeper

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.” – Susan George