“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
― Leonard Cohen (R.I.P.)
photography
Inner fire, a photograph
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran, poetess
Anybody, a photograph
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf
Deviation, a photograph
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa
Here, a photograph
“You may say to yourself: “Well, how did I get here?”
— David Byrne
5’s, A Photograph
“Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.”
― Marcel Proust
They are a-changin, A Photograph
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
– Bob Dylan
Dee, A Photograph
“If you think we’re waxworks,” he said, “you ought to pay, you know. Waxworks weren’t made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!”
“Contrariwise,” added the one marked ‘DEE’, “if you think we’re alive, you ought to speak.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Bicycle bicycle bicycle, A Photograph
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
-Queen
Or not to be, A Photograph
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.”
― William Shakespeare
Most Agreeable, A Photograph
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
I can generally be guilty of ignoring life.
Understanding, A Photograph
“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
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
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
Gently, A Photograph
“When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.”
― Kim Sowol, Poet
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
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
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
Relative, A Photograph of Age
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
– Anaïs Nin
Seeing Things, A Photograph
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin
Imagination, A Photograph of Art
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
– Edward Hopper
Restless Urge, A Photograph
“…as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.”
– Daphne du Maurier
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
