“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.” – Philip James Bailey

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.” – Helen Hayes

“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.” – Tertullian

“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” – Robert M. Pirsig

“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.” – Ben Hecht

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.” – Paul Cezanne

“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth

“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.” – Otto Dix

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.” – William Blake