If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Only an artist with a part of God in him can see beauty in the commonplaces of life. The rest merely mark time until they die. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. – Edgar Allan Poe

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971