Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.”
John Webster
“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”
Washington Irving
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
Edwin Way Teale
“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.”
Gian Carlo Menotti
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never…
Mark Van Doren
“To fail to love is not to exist at all.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“It’s always too early to quit.”
Pamela Hansford Johnson
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
Brigham Young
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
Henry Morton Stanley
“The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.”
Emily Bronte
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
John Lubbock
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the…
Luis Barragan
“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and…
Jean de La Fontaine
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the…
Wassily Kandinsky
“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”
Andre Norton
“There’s no night without stars.”
Alma Gluck
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic,…
James Stephens
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
Nicholas Culpeper
“Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.”
Susan George
“If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if…
Henry J. Kaiser
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
Jessamyn West
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Philip James Bailey
“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”
Tertullian
“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”
William Whewell
“Every failure is a step to success.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you…
Xenophon
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”