Walter Inglis Anderson

“The painter has to be a poet, a philosopher, and a natural scientist.”

“Life is a series of surprises.”

“I make a picture of the object in order to understand it.”

“In order to realize the beauty of humanity, we must realize our relation to nature.”

“The real world is not this tide of humanity, but in the wilderness, in the swamps, in the forests and on the sea.”

“Satisfaction, to me, is the death of magnetism.”

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“There is a time to make things happen and a time to let them happen.”

“Nature is the only true religion.”