One must have a lofty idea, not of what one does, but of what one may do someday.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Emptiness wrongly grasped destroys the slow-witted, like a snake wrongly seized or a spell wrongly cast.

-- Nagarjuna

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

-- Antoni Gaudí

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble.

-- Auguste Rodin

Study nature, but do not abandon the brush.

-- Takeuchi Seihō

Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

I do not wish to be called divine while alive.

-- Titian