Art Prints

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...

"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons " - T. S. Eliot Move over, tea, your petticoat needs fluffing. Enter the bold and bitter beverage...

"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...

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville From Chapter 12 of his masterpiece, Moby Dick, in which we learn the origin ...

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoevs...

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Are't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. • 11x14 inch art print with...

"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • 11x1...

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

"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metac...

"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...

"Dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can." - Mark Twain From his travelogue The Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain spent much of his time in...

"I would prefer not to." - Herman Melville Bartleby is a mystery, one that has fascinated readers and literary critics alike. Is he a Christ figu...

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

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often over t...

"Working in silence, the machine became invisible." - Franz Kafka A gentleman strides forth on a treadmill of ones and zeros, oblivious to the inv...

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...

"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...

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

"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 ...