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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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