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

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.” – Peter Max

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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