Archive for the 'Quotes' Category
Be where your feet are.
- Anne Lamott
To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ‘There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Without this - there is nought -
All other Riches be
As is the Twitter of a Bird -
Heard opposite the Sea -
I could not care - to gain
A lesser than the Whole -
For did not this include themself -
As Seams - include the Ball?
I wished a way might be
My Heart to subdivide -
‘Twould magnify - the [...]
I read a short article on Rembrandt in the Dec issue of Smithsonian magazine by Stephanie Dickey which had this interesting section to close it out:
While his bold, unconventional approach to both life and art has been admired by some viewers more than others, the fundamental authenticity of his response to the human condition remains [...]
From the Desk of Dorothy Gale
Auntie Em,
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Taking the dog.
~ Dorothy
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Dorothy’s all grown up now, still traveling the world, having adventures, making new friends and getting into a smattering of trouble.
I recently spotted her in Bologna in the form of my friend L, together with Toto, under [...]
Good and evil exist as destiny and fate. Destiny is that which you were born to fulfil, Fate is that which exists to deter you from fulfilling your destiny.
Paraphrased from the Chronicle of Tao
I’m back in the US. As I get some sleep and reacquaint myself with the marvelousness that is “California in late autumn when I don’t live in a cubicle”, here’s a nice quote:
The Real voyage of discovery is not in discovering new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
