"If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can hold onto them is a desire. Writers and artists are trying to record these things they can no longer have. We're a heartbroken lot. Taking pictures is a brave act in which you try to explain and remember a thing you can't have anymore."

-- Laurel Nakadate

#Heartbroken Quotes #Artist Quotes #Brave Quotes

“I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.”
“There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.”
“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
“Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.”
“The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.”
“A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.”
“There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration.”

Source : "The Valiant Knights of Daguerre: Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers".
“An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.”

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