"The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything."

-- Diane Arbus

#Photography Quotes

“Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.”

Source : Sona Johnston, Paul Hayes Tucker, Theodore Robinson, Baltimore Museum of Art (2004). “In Monet's light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny”, Philip Wilson Publishers
“When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is it?" But when the human becomes animal, the effect is disgusting, and if we laugh at all, then it is what Beckett calls the "mirthless laugh", which laughs at that which is unhappy.”
“Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.”
“Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!”
“the tigers have found me and I do not care.”
“Everything hinges on how you look at things”
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
“Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.”

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