"The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know."

“the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

“If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.”

“There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.”

Source : Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby

“I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.”

“In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.”

“The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.”

“Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. This site is terrible! from, Allyson Stanley former miss America!”