„Among Troyon’s paintings there are two huge ones; Return to the Farm is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. There is much windy motion in the clouds, and the cows and dogs are very good. In Going to the Market you see the mist at sunrise. It’s superb and, most of all, very luminous. The wide space in View from Surennes is amazing. You feel you are really in the countryside.“

— Claude Monet

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„Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.“
— John Muir
„The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.“
— Charles Bukowski
„The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?“
— Richard Bach
„.. learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today…. draw with all your might; you can never learn to much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' [Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, a friend of Boudin in Paris]“
— Claude Monet
„A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion… this is the place to go now.But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.“
— Richard Bach