"It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very few of the actual selects. Sometimes these personal pictures will end up in a book of my work. Oftentimes, however, they are simply photographs which I hope resonate, yet rarely find a publication home. I do a lot of personal work in Rio de Janeiro, and this of a parkour artist making a jump on Ipanema Beach is such a moment.”

Source : "The Most Extraordinary Photos You've Never Seen" by Elizabeth Griffin, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2014.
“The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.”
“Be suspicious of what you want.”
“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence whoâ€™d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”
“And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.”
“The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.”
“He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled. "You smell so good in the rain," he explained. "In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously. He sighed. "Both, always both.”
“Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.”

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