"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

June 29, 1900 - July 13, 1944