A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller
I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded. — William Ellery Channing
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures — Henry Ward Beecher