In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Too many of us stay walled up because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

sister almond tree
speak to me of God
and the almond tree blossomed

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

"Did you make that song up?"
"Well, I sort of made it up, " said Pooh, "It isn't Brain...but it comes to me sometimes."
"Ah," said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went & fetched them.