Paris

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be really elegant. 

(Honore de Balzac)

I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world.

(Charles Dickens)

Paris

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in History,beauty, and in the point of life.

(Thomas Jefferson)

"That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me".

(Adriane in Midnight in Paris. Woody Allen)

Me by myself

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

(Confucius)

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life , and every setting sun be to you as its close.

(john Ruskin)

Bedruthan Steps

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

(Claude Monet)

Painting,n.:The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

(Ambrose Bierce)

Tulips

"I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move".

(Georgia O'Keeffe)

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.

(The Koran)

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)