Painting Quote by Anaïs Nin

“He knew suddenly that nobody, living upon the remotest, most barren crag in the ocean, could complain of a dull landscape so long as…

— T.H. White

“When I looked into his eyes I found the best parts of the ocean on a perfect summer day. Blue fought with green and…

— Christy Trujillo

“He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.”

— Hilary Mantel

“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…

— Yukio Mishima

“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light was a…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the…

— Sylvia Plath

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“I think I took him to the beach that winter's day to show him that it offered a truer image of the human condition.…

— Robert Finch - The Outer Beach

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

“He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long, golden beaches and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me:…

— Leesa Freeman