Lucy Larcom

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."

Matthew Green

"Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way."

John Singer Sargent

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."

Joseph Addison

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"God made me and broke the mold."

Joseph Addison

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."

Dylan Thomas

"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."

Guillaume Apollinaire

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."