* Choose only one Master. NATURE.
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
*The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1959)
* An Original has no flaws, it is merely the re-production that is wrong!
- Lorna Parkinson, Bark Artist
* Imitation may be the highest compliment but copying is just theft that illustrates the lack of ability, morals and character of the copier.
- Greg Gibson, Friend
*The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection.
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 -1564)
*Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
- Peter Garrett, Musician/Politician
*Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
* A Painting is to be admired from a distance...not close by.
- Lorna Parkinson, Bark Artist
* The gardens are really the outdoor classroom.
- Tom Roberts (1856 - 1931)
* Art is a harmony which runs parallel with nature -- what is one to
think of those imbeciles who say that the artist is always inferior
to nature?
- Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906)
* I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
- Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
*I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919)
