“The realm of ornamentation is not of this world alone, and making the invisible visible is more than ever the aim of art …” – Oskar Schlemmer

“One’s own fire-side and a good wife are gold and pearls of price, so says the proverb old.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, devouring the azure verses; where, like a pale elated piece of flotsam, a pensive drowned figure sometimes sinks.” – Arthur Rimbaud

“When the rose adorns itself, it also adorns the garden.” – Friedrich Rückert

“This it is, what all mankind graceth, and thereto his to understand,…” – Friedrich von Schiller

“Art is an aspect of Creation as seen through a temperament.” –
Emile Zola

“After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts.” – Lewis Carroll