Phil Smith

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I would call that man a born artist whose soul nature has from the very beginning endowed with an ideal, and for whom this ideal replaces the truth; he believes in it without reservation, and his life's task will be to realize it completely for himself, and to set it forth for the contemplation of others.”
― Hans von Marées

“The permanent establishment of terrestrial life in space is as profound an event as the emergence of life itself.”
― Phil Smith

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark