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

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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