Beauty, Nature, Spring

I must have flowers, always, and always.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

The Beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be Harmony.

I take great pleasure from playing with something I think is beautiful. 'Beauty' is a dangerous word because it's been standardized into something kitsch. So maybe we should talk about 'aesthetics' rather than beauty. Often something very ugly in a particular situation can be unbelievably beautiful in another.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

For the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you don't have to look far away.

The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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