Colours

Waiting

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buddha again, again

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Dick Biondi

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

Sun kissed

Kisses are better fate than wisdom. ~e.e. cummings

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

Red Hot
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. ~Yves Klein

The Healer

The world can only be grasped by action, not contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ~Diane Arbus

Concern

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote

Curious

One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein

Hangin'

It takes a long time to grow an old friend - John Leonard

Symbolism

The wise still seek Him. ~Author Unknown

Splash

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way,

things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe

Pied-à-terre

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman

Alike likes
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Mottled

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw ~Havelock Ellis.

The Visitor

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The bite

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa

Flowering advice

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll

Illumination

When you posses light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin

Work

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein

Alluring

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

Listen

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho

Visionary

Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Astrid Alauda

Meaningful

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

Likeness

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anaïs Nin

Climb

If you do not raise your eyes
you will think that you are the highest point.
~Antonio Porchia

The parade

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ~ Ansel Adams

Morning view

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

Looking Glass

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll

Imagination

I can see what the eyes cannot see, I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. ~Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Stirring

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson

Incognito
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
~Wynn Bullock

Imperfection
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. ~Goethe

Color of night

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist

Seek

If you cannot find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?
~Dogen

Morning sun bath

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose

Unreal

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

Passion
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Quiet hear

Nature and silence go better together. ~ Astrid Alauda

Soul food

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~ Carl Sagan

Inspiration

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~ Claude Monet

Clarity

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence... ~Phillip Pulfrey