"What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity."

-- Irving Penn

#People Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”
“My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.”
“I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”
“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”
“For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.”
“I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some power. Flying was, too, I guess.”
“I knew I was in England by the smell.”
“Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.”

Source : Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press

You may also like:

Annie Leibovitz
Photographer
Cecil Beaton
Photographer
Diane Arbus
Photographer
Edward Weston
Photographer
Elliott Erwitt
Photographer
Helmut Newton
Photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographer
Richard Avedon
Photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe
Photographer