To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Dorothea Lange

 

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, 
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, 
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, 
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, 
Or stand under the trees in the woods, 
Or talk by day with any one I love, 
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, 
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... 
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, 
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, 
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman

Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

 

 

circa

mid-1980's

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined . . .

Henry David Thoreau

circa

mid-1980's

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Dorothea Lange

 

circa

mid-1980's

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

 

 

 

circa

mid-1980's

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Frederick Buechner

 

circa

early-1980's

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

circa

early-1980's

 

circa

mid-1980's

 

 

 

 

Gertrude Stein

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

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

Luke the Evangelist

 

 

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

circa

early-1980's

 

 

 

 

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

Story Musgrave

 

 

 

 

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully.

But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

Maya Angelou

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

 

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

 

 

 

 

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Christopher Paolini

 

 

Happiness, not in another place but this place . . . not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman

 

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

This benefit of seeing . . . can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

 

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Maya Angelou

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Walt Whitman

 

 

 

 

 

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality.

It's a way of life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

 

 

 

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

Margaret Bourke-White

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

 

 

 

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

 

 

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

 

 

 

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

Erwin McManus