Florence

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

(Pablo Picasso)

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

(Edgar Degas)

Chiswick House Garden W4

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree

(Joyce kilmer)

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul."

(Max Ehrmann)

Battersea Park SW11

"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"

(Virginia Woolf)

"The parks are the lungs of London."

(Charles Dickens)