"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hyde Park, London, Great Britain

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

~ Truman Capote

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine."

~ Jeffrey Glassberg

"Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

~ William Shakespeare

Butterfly

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

~ Johann Schiller

"The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never."

~ Yiddish Proverb

This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The world's most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless.

20. Le Bassin aux Nymphéas by Claude Monet - $79.8 million

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche