Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.

—E. O. Wilson

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

—E. O. Wilson

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

—E. O. Wilson

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

—E. O. Wilson

Paint the essential character of things.

—Camille Pissarro

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

—Jackson Pollock

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

—Gustave Courbet

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

—Frida Kahlo

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

—Edward Hopper