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Spring is the time of renewal and reawakening—when everything is in bloom! Here are a few beautiful quotes that will surely rekindle the artist in you.

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”– Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”– Gustav Mahler 

“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.”– Milton Avery

“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”– Vincent van Gogh

“The earth laughs in flowers.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”– E.E. Cummings

“The artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”– Odilon Redon

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”– Oscar Wilde

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”– Claude Monet

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”– Henry Ward Beecher

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”– John Muir