Art Prints

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyám This illustration depicts two warring ideas in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám...

"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" - William Blake   Bl...

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde Wilde is reported to have dropped this zinger upon arrival in the New York Customs Hou...

"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...

"All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." - Leo Tolstoy No one one does heavy books with heavy themes quite like Tolstoy. But if yo...

"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights  An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." - Leo Tolstoy Not to be outdone by his novels, Tolstoy led an e...

"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...

"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow." - William Shakespeare From the final act of Hamlet. The entire quote reads:"Not a whit, we...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...

"Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and te...

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran Gibran's The Prophet is one ...

"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...

"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints ...

"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thys...

"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf   She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passio...

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust   Some observations are so astute that once you re...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 (regularly ...

"The Future is only dark from outside - Leap into it, and it explodes with Light." - Mina Loy From her manifesto Aphorisms on Futurism, first pub...

"Enter pirates." - Shakespeare Huh? Why, of everything the Bard wrote would we pick this absurd stage direction?  Because it was there, my friend....