“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

C.S. Lewis

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”

Man Ray

Interviewer: “Are photographs less powerful now because there are so many of them in the world?”

David Bailey: “No, it just makes the good ones even more powerful. Digital and Photoshop just moved mediocrity up a stop, that’s all. They’re still mediocre – they just look better.”

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“No description is as difficult as the description of self”

Michel de Montaigne

” You do not have to believe, like Schopenhauer, that the outer man is a picture of the inner, or that the face is a manifestation of the soul. From the infant’s ability to read two dots and a dash as  primitive features barely before its eyes can focus, to the instinctive imagining of the […]

“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.”

 George Bernard […]

“Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.”

Rene Magritte

“Photography when used as a representational art is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the “good” photograph. Only now and then does one find really “good” photographs among the millions which appear in illustrated papers and books. What is remarkable in this and at the same time serves […]

“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.”

Berenice Abbott