Mona Kuhn famous quotes

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Mind #Body

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Flower #People #Photograph

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Skins #Naked #Secure

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Wall #Taken #Thinking

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Photography #Important #Should

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.
-- Mona Kuhn

#Photography #Discovery #Self

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.