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“A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.”
Source : George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.360, Gale Cengage Learning
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“Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.”
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“What has not wasting time impaired?”
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“I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.”
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“Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.”
Source : Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press
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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.
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“An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.”
Source : Mary Deasy (1948). “The Hour of Spring”
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“He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.”