The Artists Celebrate the Winter Season

Yan Nascimbene "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." - Hamilton Wright Mabie Chris Gall "Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour."  - John Boswell Rudy Gutierrez "When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand." - Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Douglas Smith "The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run." - Tim Cahill Maria Corte Maidagan "It is not the gift, but the thought that counts." - Henry Van Dyke John Mattos "Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads." - Author Unknown Niklas Asker "When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -  Welcome wool sweaters."  - B. Cybrill Kinuko Y. Craft "The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty.   It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn." - Patricia Hampl  Gregory Manchess "You better watch out You better not cry  Better not pout  I'm telling you why  Santa Claus is coming to town."  - Haven Gillespie, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Goni Montes "One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese proverb Chris Whetzel "The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter." - Dave Barry Mark Summers "I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me." - Noel Coward C.F. Payne "I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year." - Jimmy Fallon Gary Kelley "Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith." - Author Unknown Bill Sanderson "Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no Santa Claus!... There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence." - Francis P. Church, New York Sun, Sep. 21, 1897 Eric Drooker “O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author and Poet Tyler Jacobson “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” - Anne Bradstreet  Ted Wright “Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” - Vesta M. Kelly Scott Brundage “Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.” - W.C. Fields, The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips & One-Liners Dongyun Lee “And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.” - Roy Bean, 19th century Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas