"The dragon-fly is dancing,â€” Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection..."

-- Heinrich Heine

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Blue Quotes

“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.”
“At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.”

Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”
“I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.”
“Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.”
“I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights”
“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.”
“My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.”

Source : "Ex-DNI rips Obama White House" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. July 29, 2011.
“It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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