I love new york on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.
The Great Gatsby
Quotes
If you are going to be an artist — even a photographer — I think you have to major in fantasy.
Norman Parkinson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Mark Twain
~I will be traveling this week with hopes to post at least once a day but still far less than usual. We will resume to our normal broadcasting Monday October 5th.
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I’m crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you’re going I’m going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There’s such a lot of world to see.
We’re after the same rainbow’s end—
waiting ‘round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
Johnny Mercer
I don’t try to overintellectualize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it’s only in their execution that people can enjoy them…It’s something I’ve learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
Annie Leibovitz
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch it — we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy, September 1962
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Baby’s just a little bit tired of the city,
Billboards and bullshit got her down,
Seem like you need a little hill country,
A little back roads driving, little bit of the old top down
Pat Green
The model has to give you the moment. It’s not you making it. They give it to you and you capture it.
Peter Lindberg
If you steal from one, you’re a thief. If you steal from everyone, it’s research.
Tony Bennett to Michael Buble
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
Oscar Wilde
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
Robert Frank