Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Walt Whitman

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Oscar Wilde

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And that's my inspiration. 

Man Ray

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. 

Max Ernst

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 
 Mahatma Gandhi

 

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

John Ruskin

 

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. 
Paul Brunton

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

 

 

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Oscar Wilde

 

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Edward Stieglitz

 

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. 
Anne Frank

 

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. 
Anne Frank

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction. 

Giorgio de Chirico

 

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Leonardo da Vinci

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde 

Lady Windermere's Fan

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

Yo-Yo Ma

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 
Margaret Mead

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

 

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

 

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
Gertrude Stein

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. 

Giorgio de Chirico

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.

Gerald Way

 

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. 
Plato

 

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. 

Paul Brunton

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

 

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

 

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. 

Man Ray

 

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. 
Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! 
Dr. Seuss

 

 

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. 
Paul Brunton

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman

 

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

 

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

 

 

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

Trent Parke

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. 
Helen Keller

 

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. 

Marcel Duchamp

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Greta Scacchi

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew. 

Paul Brunton

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again. 
Gustav Mahler

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain

 

 

 

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Antonin Artaud

 

 

 

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

 

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

John Loengard

 

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. Ansel Adams

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. 
Paul Brunton

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

 

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 
 George Orwell

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. 
Paul Brunton

 

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world. 

Giorgio de Chirico

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frederic Chopin

 

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Paul Brunton

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Roy T. Bennett

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. 
Mae West

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. 
Paul Brunton

 

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
Joseph Campbell

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. 

Max Ernst

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. 
 Narcotics Anonymous

 

 

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

Your self is sacred; be true to it. 

Paul Brunton

 

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. 

Haruki Murakami

 

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

 

 

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. 
Maya Angelou 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James