“This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.” – Richard Jefferies

“The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.” – Joyce Maynard

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.” – Carroll O’Connor

“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.” – Ruth St. Denis

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” – B. C. Forbes

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.” – Kin Hubbard

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?” – Paul Gauguin