Water

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

Memories

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Blazing hearth

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh

Trees

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Yellow

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent van Gogh

The eye

It is the eye which makes the horizon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughing Flowers in Freedom

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
- Malcolm De Chazal