"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." —Aristotle

Layers, Muxia, A Coruña, Spain, 2016

Regarding the Infinite 16: Amboise, France, 2010

"Time, the devourer of all things."—Ovid

The once and future day, Bobbin, Rügen, 2017

“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” —Aesop

Man holding up shadow, Baeza, Jaén, 2015

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."—Mark Twain

Memento Mori, Locronan, France, 2010

"Information is not knowledge".—Albert Einstein

Mind the app, Torroella de Montgrí, 2016

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

Pious reader, Sant Miquel de Fluvià, 2016

"Big results require big ambitions."—Heraclitus

Blind ambition, La Gola del Ter, 2020

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."—Niccolo Machiavelli

Last Encounter, Barcelona, 2010

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new land- scapes but in having new eyes."—Marcel Proust

The cave, Schloss Schwerin, Germany, 2018

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." —Aristotle

Boy with six birds, Siracusa, 2017

"Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth."—Pablo Picasso

The photographer, Schwerin, Germany, 2018

"We do not stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing."—George Bernard Shaw

On the heath, Bantry, Ireland, 1988

"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush."—Popular refrain

A bird in hand, La Gola del Ter, Girona, 2016

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."—Alan Watts, the Way of Zen

The good bye, L'Estartit, 2010

“This town is filled with echoes. It's like they were trapped behind the walls, or beneath the cobblestones." —Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

Baluartes, La Alhambra, 2004

"Eternity is long, especially towards the end."—Franz Kafka

Reflections, Issoire, France, 2018

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Private moment, Istambul, 1989

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."—André Gide

At heaven's gate, Sighişoara, Romania, 2018

“We are our choices.”—Jean-Paul Sartre

The doubt, Torroella de Montgrí, 2020

“It is only when the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”—Benjamin Franklin

The Water Carrier, Tetouan, 1971

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”—William Blake

Pyramid, Ronchamp, France, 2018