“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh – View of Arles, flowering orchards, 1889.
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust Galileo Chini – La vida, 1919.
“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders”.Andrew Harvey Martin Johnson Heade – Cattleya Orchid and…
“I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen. When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you…
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”Marcel Proust Georges Rochegrosse – The Knight of the Flowers (detail), 1894.
