„Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.“

— Frank Lloyd Wright
„In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„When I was.... in the surroundings of pictures and things of art... I then had a violent passion for them... And I do not repent it, for even now, far from that land, I am often homesick for the land of pictures.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.“
— Pablo Neruda
„Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons“
— Orson Welles