“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.” – Anton Chekhov

“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” – Pat Buckley

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” – Raoul Dufy

“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.” – Hosea Ballou

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art is the daughter of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller