"I am a great believer in the importance of first impressions. That's one reason why Boulevard Lights, Paris, is so dear to me; it's the first print in my new City Impressions collection.

I have enjoyed such a bustling vision of light and color in one of my journeys to Paris -- I just couldn't tell you exactly where or when. Because of this, Boulevard Lights, Paris, exists for me in that ethereal world between experience and imagination that we call memory. And perhaps that is just as well. Because somewhere in the heart of everyone who daydreams is an imaginary memory of Paris."

--- Thomas Kinkade