Reflections on photography, art, beauty and the natural landscape.
I suspect that what you’re looking for is something that will actually confirm that you’re a human being.
We all have this terrible feeling of isolation and loneliness.
Art is a signpost.
It’s the thing that we do that makes us realize that we’re not alone.
It’s the communication of the human spirit.
It’s the one area where you mustn’t have caution or inhibition.
You have to be prepared to crash your plane and walk away from it.
– David Bowie
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on Leonardo da Vinci–
“What an artist brings to the world is a way of gazing into it.
Can you look at it from my eyes?
That’s the greatest gift an artist brings.”
“The artist is the medium
between his fantasies
and the rest of the world.”
–Federico Fellini
The object isn’t to make art,
it’s to be in that wonderful state
that makes art inevitable.
– Robert Henri
“The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
– William Butler Yeats.
If you want to know
where your heart is,
look to where your mind
goes when it wanders.
– Walt Whitman
I am constantly trying
to communicate
something incommunicable.
To explain something inexplicable,
To tell about something
I only feel in my bones
Franz Kafka
"Man is hungry for beauty.
There is a void."
– Oscar Wilde
“… a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit.”
Kurt Vonnegut
"The luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it."
– Nick Cave
