"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Photography Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Asking Quotes

“How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?”

Source : Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”
“Itâ€™s always going to be easy to live like others or otherâ€™s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.”
“Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.”
“I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.”
“Nothing happens carelessly. Weâ€™re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.”
“The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.”
“I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first and foremost. Unless the melody gets stuck in my head, I'll move on. Once I have the musical idea pretty firm, I just try to write words that are incredibly honest and relate to my life on that given night. I'll sit with the music on my headphones and pen and paper all night long until it's done.”
“Failure's a natural part of life.”

Source : "Life and taxes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2006.

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