"Each year, several million people are looking for new clothes. The fashion they are looking at cannot be too expensive, but it has to be stylish."

“And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.”

“The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.”

Source : Paul Strand (1971). “Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946”

“History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.”

“In opera, there is always too much singing.”

“I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.”

“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?”

“Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.97, Counterpoint

“I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.”