“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” – Orson Welles

“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is born of humiliation.” – W. H. Auden

“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.” – Norman MacCaig

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” – Samuel Butler

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” – Roy Lichtenstein

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” – Claude Debussy