We can never have enough of nature.
We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, 
the sea-coast with its wrecks, the thunder-cloud, and the rain...

~ Henry David Thoreau

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, 
closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.

~ Nicholas Sparks

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: 
the light, and the motion of color.

~ Sonia Delaunay

                                               Then the sea 

And heaven rolled as one and from the two 

Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue.

~ Wallace Stevens

Everything we see hides another thing,

 we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

~ Rene Magritte

Exaggerate the essential; leave the obvious vague. 

~ Vincent van Gogh

Moonlight is sculpture.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw

Or heard or felt came not but from myself;

And there I found myself more truly and more strange. 

~ Wallace Stevens

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, 

so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

~ Richard Feynman 

The reality is the picture; it is most certainly not in the picture.

~ Georg Baselitz

The serpentine line, or the line of grace,
by its waving and winding at the same time different ways,
leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

~ William Hogarth

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions 
is often in people's faces. 

~ Amy Poehler

I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind 

as many beautiful lost things as I could. 

Drawing them closer, holding on to them. 

Knowing all the while that their lives are fleeting.

~ Haruki Murakami

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, 

at least misplaced it for a moment.

~ Colin Farrell

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you

and your lamp is dying out,

and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

~ Henri Frederic Amiel