🌺 Beauty

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

“If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year”

“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see”

“Simplicity is complexity resolved”

“I started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my life”

“The camera should be used for a recording of life for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well”

“As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown”

“To err is human to forgive divine”

“Art is the highest form of hope”

“The only thing that is constant is change”

“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot”

“Art is a guarantee of sanity”

“Nothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfect”

“I do not seek I find”

“I have felt the wind of the wing of madness”

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentive”

“An original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessity”

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

“Study nature love nature stay close to nature it will never fail you”

“I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly because they are surrounded by things like that all day long”

“The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution”

“Art can become a physical resource that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialist”

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

“Drawing is a way of seeing how I think”

“In this world nothing is certain people and things are always changing”

“Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence”

“Good design is as little design as possible”

“The secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to”

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”

“For us there is only the trying the rest is not our business”

“In the mountain twilight I lean alone against the pine”

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmony”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“In the tea room it is left for each guest in his imagination to complete the total effect in relation to himself”

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”

“Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwriting”

“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”