"What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it"

~ Vincent van Gogh

San Marco

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

~ Lao Tzu

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

~ Albert Camus

Sunlight

"The early bird catches the worm."

~ William Camden

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

~ Oscar Wilde