"Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'"

-- Emmet Gowin

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Butterfly Quotes

“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”

Source : George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History‎" (p. 47), 1981.
“Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.”
“P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.”
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
“... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.”
“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”
“Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!”
“Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.”

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