Favourite quotes

I have collated some of my favourite quotes that I am considering for a business card and/or website. Please comment - and let me know what you think!

1. Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.
   — Tim Parsey
2. The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
   — John Gruber
3. Color is a creative element, not a trimming.
   — Piet Zwart
4. A good designer may not have all the answers, but he knows which questions to ask.
   — Rudy Duke
5. Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.
   — Stella Adler
6. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
   — Neil Gaiman
7. The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it - Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you . . . you can feel it.
   - Ted Trueblood
9. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
   - William Hazlett
10. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
    — Frank Capra
11. There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.
    - Aristotle