Famous quotes containing the words country and/or artist:
“I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights and determining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection. Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, they stood in awe of each other, as religious men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)