Sojourn Quotes

(On his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art) "I intended to stay three years. Instead, I stayed 15 days! I remember lying in an Athens basement with lizards crawling along the walls and contemplating that I was 7,000 miles from McDonalds!"

(On his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art) "I didn`t take to Europe. I was all the time thinking, this is where I`m going to be painting. And there was no inspiration there at all for the kind of work I wanted to do."

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it`s because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.