Thomas Fuller
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
John James Audubon
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”
Robert Quillen
“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that…
Luc de Clapiers
“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
Gustave Courbet
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist…
Ovid
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
Gertrude Stein
“It is very easy to love alone.”
Pierre Bonnard
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
Matsuo Basho
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
Rebecca West
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the…
Emily Carr
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own,…
Hal Borland
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
Mason Cooley
“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
Barbara Hepworth
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
Noel Coward
“Work is much more fun than fun.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.”
Herbert Read
“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to…
Christian Nestell Bovee
“Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.”
Josh Billings
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Alfred de Musset
“Great artists have no country.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life…
Henry Miller
“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept…
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
Charles Dickens
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
Helen Keller
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes…
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”