Bhumibol Adulyadej
“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
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…
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.”
Madame de Stael
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Aesop
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Henry Austin Dobson
“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.”
Steven Pinker
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
Lee Iacocca
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real…
Paul Muni
“Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.”
James Schuyler
“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements…
Simone Weil
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Dylan Thomas
“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
Joyce Carol Oates
“In love there are two things – bodies and words.”
Francesco Guicciardini
“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”
James Montgomery
“The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.”
Princess Diana
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
Michael Korda
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
Christo
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”