"When virtue is commendable and brilliant, those which are small will be heavy; when things come to be crafty and decrepit, those which are large will be light."

-Wangsun Man

"I was born as a flower in the field,

As a flower I was cherished in my youth,

I came to my full age, I grow old,

Now I am withered and die."

-Indian Folk Poem-Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

"A spell for being transformed into any shape one may wish."

-Book of the Dead - Chapter 76

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

-Edward Hopper

"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one or the other purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul."

-Wassily Kandisky