Andrea Darra

The Mountain

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”.

Henry David Thoreau

Tunnel (Your Way)

“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before”.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cold Branches

“…like a branch that tries to break away from the tree. It will wither and come to a bad end.”

William Shakespeare

Plowing

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass”.

John Steinbeck

Tree, house, dog

“There is a place in the heart
that will never be filled
a space
and even during the best moments
and the greatest times
times…”

Charles Bukowski

After All

“All things are ready, if our minds be so”.

William Shakespeare

Stairway

“The imaginary is what tends to become real”.

André Breton

Your Way

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky”.

Tagore

Mémoires

“I closed the book and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you’ve lost”.

Woody Allen

Leaf

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”.

Albert Camus

Scars

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web”.

Pablo Picasso

By the Smokestack

“From the time the sun left home
there’s something they just ignore
is that you can play with fire
but this won’t stop your ire”.

An Harbor

“La mia esistenza è simile a quella delle piante; vivo come i fiori imprigionati dietro le cancellate del castello di Oberhofen. Sono un animale in gabbia, poiché vincoli materiali e spirituali sono tutt’uno”.

Paul Klee