Blaise Pascal
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
Jasper Johns
“I am not strong on perfection.”
Lorraine Hansberry
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t…
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
“All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When in doubt, don’t.”
D. H. Lawrence
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Henri Matisse
“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
Orson Scott Card
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
William Law
“Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.”
Adolf Loos
“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
Saint Augustine
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
James Whistler
“An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.”
William Congreve
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
Bhumibol Adulyadej
“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
Ella Maillart
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of…
Sol LeWitt
“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing…
James Baldwin
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
A. A. Milne
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no…
Stewart Udall
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Willem de Kooning
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
Alexander Smith
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Petrarch
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
Horace
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”