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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm (Pope Paul VI)

The fool in a hurry drinks his tea with a fork. (Charlie Chan)

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all (Stanley Horowitz)

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing (Christopher Morley )

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. (Melissa Brown)

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little (Tad Dorgan)

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision (Joseph Joubert)

Black is not a color (Edouard Manet)

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking (William Makepeace Thackeray)

When you have only two cent left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. (Chinese Proverb)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Art will never be able to exist without nature. (Pierre Bonnard)

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom (Thomas Carlyle)

One rose says more than the dozen (Wendy Craig)

A Traveller should have a hog's nose, deer's legs, and an ass's back. (Benjamin Franklin)

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water (Fernand Leger)

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun (Pablo Picasso)

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there (Will Rogers)

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water (W.H. Auden)

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail (Theophile Gautier )

To love beauty is to see light (Victor Hugo)

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger (Buddha )

When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light (Astrid Alauda)

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler (Albert Einstein)

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain (Carl Jung)

I shut my eyes in order to see (Paul Gauguin)

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings (Evan Esar)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet (Roger Miller)

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept (Ansel Adams)

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery (Jim Woodring)

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows (Mason Cooley)

Seek the strongest color effect possible, the content is of no importance (Henri Matisse)

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds (Aesop )

Friendship and money are like oil and water (Mario Puzo)

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us (Franz Kafka)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower (Albert Camus)

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin...

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age (Colin Powell )

Rose in decay...

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness”

“No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.”

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. (by Russell Crowe)

Inside a stainless steel sugar bowl

Wishing you all a happy new year

Sea shell in close up

Close-up of a unknown flower

The end of life: sun shining through a decaying leaf

Flowers and movement

"It is better to travel well than to arrive " (Buddha)

Yellow and Blue

This is the Meripilus giganteus...

The shadow of the spider

Detail of a small sunflower

Imploded steel as art

How close is the moon?

White lily in close up

Water lilies in castle pond

Spoon in a glass

Buddha, meditating in my garden

peeled off bark of a birch

Detail of modern art

Plants in the botanical garden of Leiden (the Netherlands)

Patterns in wood

Modern art tree

Yellow lichen with barbed wire

More than a piece of wood

An illuminated snail's shell

How to make macro images without expensive lenses

Impressionist tree trunk

Ice crystals on grass

Bark of a birch

Roll out the red carpet: winter is coming!

Bark of a birch

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) in close up...

Datura stramonium; the Devil's balls

Daffodils - Narcissus

Strange little insect sitting on a flower

the cycle of life: young tree growing on an old tree trunk

Autumn in June: decaying leafs of a prunus tree

Raindrops on a hosta leaf

Raindrops on a leaf

Broken tea glass

How to make cheap macro photos: a cornflower shot through a 40 euro close-up lens

Bloody delicious

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