—Henri Cartier-Bresson, who died on 3 August 2004.“To my mind, photography has the power to evoke, and must not simply document. We have to be abstract, just like nature.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photography “must not simply document”
Category: Art
Georgia O’Keeffe on living under the stars
— Georgia O’Keeffe“Maybe it seems mad that I go out like this and live out under the stars and the sky for a few days — but I am like that.”
Vincent Van Gogh: “keep going, keep going come what may”
— Vincent Van Gogh“I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.”
Halldór Laxness: The freedom to look up at the sky
— Halldór Laxness, World Light (trans. Magnus Magnusson).“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”
Thoreau: “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature”
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Kneeling in Selma, Alabama
