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

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

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

-- Nagarjuna

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.

-- René Descartes

I do not wish to be called divine while alive.

-- Titian

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

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

-- Auguste Rodin

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

-- Antoni Gaudí