He to whom Nature begins to reveal her open secret will feel an irresistable yearning for her most worthy interpreter, Art.
  —Goethe
  The eye must be alert; must see the influences of one thing on another and bring all things into relation.
  —Robert Henri, American Artist
  Our way now lay through the beautiful lake of Peoria, whose clear surface reflected its sylvan banks with a two-fold beauty.
  —Schoolcraft, European explorer and recorder of the Lake Peoria region circa 1800’s
 
 
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