Ancient Quote by Lynn Culbreath Noel

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough…

— Rick Riordan

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it…

— Jacques Barzun

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body…

— Mary Leakey

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers…

— Alan Lee

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows,…

— John Ruskin

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen.…

— James Dickey

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the…

— Myrtle Reed