Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. Daisaku Ikeda

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations
which merely circle the ineffible idea I seek to express. Caldwell O’Keefe

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

Like the best wine, for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of
those that are asleep to speak. Song of Solomon

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given. Emily Dickinson

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. Unknown

Lake of Two Mountains, Hudson, Quebec

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

Ducks along frozen St. Lawrence River, Quebec

Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. Jacob Braud

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist. Isaac Asimov