The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore – except to make our lives into a work of art.
Beauty without expression is boring.
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.
The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.
To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.
Photography helps people to see.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
To love beauty is to see light.