
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion


I work hard every afternoon from 4:30 to 4:40, that being the limit of the light I represent, the title of my picture being Early Evening.
Winslow Homer

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Winslow Homer

Autumn is the season of change. ~Taoist proverb
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. ~Leo Tolstoy, to Nikolay Strakhov

I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.
The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.
~Ann Drake, 2013


Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.
Rudolfo Anaya