“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Street Photography
Alone, A Photograph
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.”
– Rollo May
Inside Man, Street Photography
“It’s not the men in your life that matters, it’s the life in your men.”
– Mae West
Piecework, A Photograph of Life
“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do this by working just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some wild beast in a menagerie.”
– Upton Sinclair
Everything, A Photograph of Love
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Restless Artist, A Photograph
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable”
– Henry Miller
Vogue, A Photograph of Vancouver, BC
“Everything popular is wrong.”
-Oscar Wilde
Sigh, A Photograph of Life
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.”
– William Shakespeare
More, A Photograph of People
“People are more than just the way they look.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
Grand, A Photograph
The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.
– Dorothy Kilgallen
I couldn’t agree more with Mrs. Kilgallen…
Something, A Photograph
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Refreshment, A Photograph
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
– Jane Austen
Musician, A Photograph of Life
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.”
– E.M. Forster
Any Time, A Photograph
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Moving Pictures, A Photograph of Subway Life
“I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.”
– Irwin Shaw
Ruins, A Photograph of Advancement
“It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.”
– Alain de Botton
With Us, A Photograph of Life
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Weirdness, A Photograph of Frankfurt Germany
“I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.”
– Dr. Seuss
Artists at Work, Photographs
Harp Man, A Photograph
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu
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