Rectangular Seascape/Acrylic on Canvas/2025

The Wave/Acrylic on Canvas/2025

"The sea is everything... it is the Living Infinite."

— Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."

— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles."

— Christopher Paolini, Eragon

"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach."

— Henry Beston, The Outermost House

The Ocean and the Human Spirit

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea."

— E. E. Cummings

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."

— Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

— Jacques Cousteau

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."

— Kate Chopin

"You can never cross the ocean until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

— André Gide

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar."

— Lord Byron

"Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange."

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end."

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 60

"The sea is as near as we come to another world."

— Anne Stevenson