Paris

"The national characteristics...the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro."

(Lawrence Durrell)

"All Art is but dirtying the paper delicately."

(John Ruskin)

Paris

Look back at your struggle for freedom

Trace our present days struggle to its source;

And you'll find that mans pathway to glory

Is strewn with the bones of the horse.

(Unknown)

"No preparation, even executed with the greatest care, holds to me any value if it does not demonstrate a new fact or the resolution of a debated issue."

(Georg Ludwig Rumpelt 1779)

Paris

"The Divisions of perspective are three, as used in drawing; of these the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances."

(Leonardo da Vinci)

"Drawing is like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make."

(David Hockney)

Paris

"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half."

(Charles de Montesquieu)

"An artist has no other home in Europe except in Paris."

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

Brecon Beacons

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

(Dylan Thomas)

"Do you know where Wales is? Most people in the world have no idea. It is a peninsula standing at the heart of the British Isles, on the western flank of England facing Ireland."

(Jan Morris)

Cuckmere Haven

The Cuckmere now begins to widen its banks and the theory that the waters once extended from side to side of the valley seems tenable as we view the wide expanse of sedgy swamp through which the present channel is cut. Cuckmere Haven is the name given to the bay between the last of the Seven Sisters and the eastern slopes of Seaford Head which should be ascended for the sake of the lovely view up the valley, seen at its best from this end.

(Edric Holmes. Seaward Sussex)

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea".

(Isak Dinesen)

Highgate Cemetery

"Madam, all true stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep it from you".

(Ernest Hemingway)

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens".

(Woody Allen)

Shoreham

"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the most beautiful words in the english language".

(Henry James)

"If it could only be like this always-always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper..."

(Evelyn Waugh)