Olga Picasso, by Pablo Picasso, Washington, DC

Painting is just another way to keep a diary.

Pablo Picasso.

Boy in Red Vest, Paul Cézanne. Washington, DC

No great artist sees things as they really are.

If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

~Oscar Wilde.

Venice, J.M.W. Turner, Washington, DC

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me

more than all the words I have read in my life.

~Walt Whitman.

Odalisque, Auguste Renoir, Washington DC

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

~Friedrich Nietzsche.

A Corner In A Dance Hall, Henri De Toulouse-Latruec, Washington DC

Between man and woman there is no friendship possible,

There is passion, enmity, worship, love but no friendship.

~Oscar Wilde.

Sculpture of Vishnu, Washington, DC

 

 

Three things can not long be hidden:

the sun, the moon, and the truth.

~Buddha.

Astoria Column, Astoria, OR

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

~Herodotus.

Sun Studios, Memphis, TN

"I don't know anything about music.

In my line you don't have to".

Elvis Presley.

 

 

Chain Rock, Pineville, KY

Everyone is kneaded from the same dough,

but not baked in the same oven.

~Yiddish Proverb.

Spirit of St. Louis, Washington, DC

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC

When angry, count to ten before you speak.

If very angry, count to one hundred.

~Thomas Jefferson.

Ford Theatre, Washington, DC

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

 ~Abraham Lincoln.

Mayan Moon Calendar, Washington, DC

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men

 answered thousand of years ago.

 ~Goethe.

Comberland Gap, KY,TN,VA.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost.

Parthenon, Memphis, TN

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

~Chinese Proverb.

Mississipi River, Hannibal, MO

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people

think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

~Mark Twain.

Cats on the wall, Astoria OR

You've learned enough to take the view

That cats are very much like you.

~Song Lyrics.

Jesse James Farm, Kearney, MO

Well, Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,

three children, they were brave,

well that little dirty coward that shot Mr. Howard,

has laid poor Jesse James in his grave.

~Folk song.

Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TN

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color 

of their skin, but by the content of their character.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn, Hannibal, MO

Apparently there is nothing that can not happen today.

~Mark Twain.

Piramid of Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan,Mexico

Ignore Alien Orders.

~Unknown.

Coatlicue, Mexico City.

Time brings all things to pass.

~Aeschylus.