"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it." - Gustave Courbet

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness." - Eckhart Tolle

"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." - Henry Moore