Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Zaha Hadid

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.

Leonora Carrington

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

Anna Quindlen

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

John Ruskin

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charlotte Bronte

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

D.H. Lawrence

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject.

Ansel Adams

The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Chuck Close

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

Max Ernst

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Louisa May Alcott

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

Trent Parke

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Charles Tart

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Benvenuto Cellini

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Toni Morrison

The 2-ton 12ft. tall bronze statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in front of Coit Tower since 1957, was finally removed on June 18, 2020.  

Columbus was a conquistador and colonizer, who sold hundreds of indigenous men, women, and children into slavery.  His men, along with the thousands of European troops that followed, butchered the native peoples by the thousands. The statue was sculpted by Count Vittorio di Colbertaldo of Verona, who was a fascist, and one of Benito Mussolini’s bodyguards known as the Black Musketeers.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Alfred Stieglitz

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty

The Russian Bride’s Attire 1887
Oil on canvas by Konstantin Makovsky
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

From the show Gods in Color, at the Legion of Honor in 2017

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Susan Sontag

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

Graciela Iturbide

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

Rajneesh

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

Graciela Iturbide

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Junichiro Tanizaki

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Maya Lin

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Luis Barragan

The shadows are as important as the light.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

Graciela Iturbide

Available light is any damn light that is available!

W. Eugene Smith

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitmen

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleanora Duse

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

Elliott Erwitt

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Frida Kahlo

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Plato

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Steve McCurry

Everything is energy in motion.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

Emily Dickinson

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Berenice Abbott

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. 
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Hazrat Inayan Khan

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Rumi

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Julia Cameron

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

Anna Quindlen

Life is beauty, admire it.

Mother Teresa

If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

John Loengard

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Ursula K Le Guin

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Frida Kahlo