“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me…”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Travel
Naïveté, A Photograph
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”
― Steve Martin
Latency, A Photograph
“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one’s own latent greatness”
― Italo Svevo
Fire, A Photograph
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Gustav Mahler
The Slip, A Photograph
“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The Pioneer, A Photograph
“Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.”
― Robert Henri
Compost, A Photograph
“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”
― William Shakespeare
Wise, wise, Shakespeare
Gently, A Photograph
“When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.”
― Kim Sowol, Poet
dear Sir, A Photograph of Solitude
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. […] who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust…. and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Bird of Space, A Photograph
“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
― Kahlil Gibran
All Right, A Photograph
“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts moved with a tranquil lethargy, her brain a leisurely machine imbedded in swaths of woolly packing.
She felt all right.”
― Richard Matheson
Spiritual Path, A Photograph
“In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.”
― Pema Chödrön
Foreign Elements, A Photograph of Kyoto, Japan
“..we may value foreign elements not only because they are new but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments than anything our homeland can provide.”
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Twin, A Photograph
“All who joy would win
Must share it — Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
Anew, A Photograph
“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
Upstairs Window, A Photograph
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
– Tennessee Williams
Maybe, A Photograph
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
– John Steinbeck
The Sea of Trust, A Photograph
“The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Sailing the Atlantic…
Howe Street Dog, A Photograph
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
– Charles de Gaulle
Hidden Woman, A Photograph
“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.”
– Banksy, Wall and Piece
Look closely please..
Sufferer, A Photograph
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
– Marcel Proust
Measurement. A Photograph
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and in that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud
A Tall Ship, Photograph
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over”
– John Masefield
Imagination, A Photograph of Art
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
– Edward Hopper
To Decorate, A Photograph
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
– Frank Zappa
Complete with back-up singers…
Myth, A Photograph
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
– John Lennon
Alone, A Photograph
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.”
– Rollo May
Below, A Photograph
“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
― John Dryden, All for Love
Old & Young, A Photograph
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest”
― Walt Whitman
Time, A Photograph
“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”
– Orhan Pamuk
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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