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“Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.”
Source : Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation
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“At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'”
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“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.”
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“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
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“I think naturally my orientation is from my father.”
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“Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.”
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“Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”
Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
