Silver Birch

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

(Gore Vidal)

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.

(Marcel Proust)

I am often asked what I draw with

Photography is an immediate reaction. Drawing is a meditation.

(Henri Cartier-Bresson)

I draw like other people bite their nails.

(Picasso)

Winter Willows

There is a willow grows aslant a brook

That shows his hoar leaves in glassy stream.

(William Shakespear. Hamlet)

Willows whiten, aspens quiver

Little breezes dusk and shiver.

(Tennyson. The lady of Shalott)

Lydia

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

(Latin Proverb)

At the touch of a lover everyone becomes a poet.

(Plato)

Winter Oaks

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

(Thomas Carlyle)

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. 

(Henry David Thoreau)

Vienna

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

(Franz Schubert)

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

(Gustav Mahler)

Merry Christmas

Vienna

Whoever wants to know something about me as an artist which alone is significant. They should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

(Gustav Klimt)

Something unpractical cannot be beautiful.

(Otto Wagner)