Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

 

 

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

I went to San Francisco 

I saw the bridges high,  

Spun across the water 

Like cobwebs in the sky. 

 

Langston Hughes

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

 

Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

Oh friends, put aside these sounds! 
Let us be more civil to each other,
And speak more joyfully.

Beethoven

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 

Whispering 'it will be happier'. . . 

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. 

Annie Leibovitz

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

Isamu Noguchi

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you. 

Dorothea Lange

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

 

 

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

 

 

 

The water colored twilight, 
with pelicans and Alcatraz on San Francisco Bay, 
as seen from Treasure Island. 
In the chilly air, 
I catch through my lens, 
the sense of an infinite profoundness, 
like a falling star. 
Go figure. 

Ron Henggeler  

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

 

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

Ancient Native American Proverb

Music is the highest, most powerful, most overriding, of all the arts. In the presence of music, all the other arts take on the character of the music, not vice versa, and is capable of, and can produce in us, the finest, most delicate of possible human reactions. 

Mark Anstendig

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. 

Francis of Assisi

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

Hazard Inayat Khan

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Alexandra David Neel

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliot Erwitt

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. 

Alice Bailey

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. 

Dorothea Lange

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction. 

Giorgio de Chirico

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. 

Edward Weston

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. 

William Blake

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Be kind. 

Every person you meet 
is fighting a difficult battle.

Plato

 

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. 

Giorgio de Chirico

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. 

Margaret Bourke-White

 

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

Amit Ray

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

Toni Morrison

 

 

 

 

 

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 

Omar Khayyam

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.” 

William Purkey

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. 

Edward Weston

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. 

William Blake

 

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 

Joseph Campbell

 

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. 

William Blake

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

 

 

 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. 

Diane Arbus

What is past is prologue. 

William Shakespeare

 

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. 

William Makepeace Thackeray

 

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, 
And all you behold, though it appears without, 
It is within, in your imagination, 
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. 

William Blake