Dante Alighieri
“Nature is the art of God.”
Black Elk
“And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.”
James Joyce
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Jack Welch
“Change before you have to.”
W. H. Auden
“Art is born of humiliation.”
Norman MacCaig
“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.”
Richard M. Nixon
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Luigi Pirandello
“When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”
Claude Debussy
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
Ninon de L’Enclos
“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”
Christopher Columbus
“I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
John Burnside
“If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another.…
William Lloyd Garrison
“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
John Stuart Mill
“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
George Eliot
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
Gertrude Jekyll
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
Zane Grey
“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”
Georg Trakl
“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.”
Leslie Fiedler
“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Bret Harte
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.”
Augustus Hare
“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Erich Segal
“Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”