“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”     

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.”

John Rousmaniere

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

Victor Hugo

“The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.”

~Simone de Beauvoir

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.”

~ John Dyer

“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”

~ Pablo Picasso