"But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself."

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Source : "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2009.

Roy DeCarava

#Beautiful Quotes #Reverence For Life Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.”
“Most pedophiles are straight not gay.”
“I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.”
“Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”
“It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.”
“Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.”
“I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.”
“I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.”

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