Yellows, a photograph of Roma
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
View ArticleReds, a photograph of Rome
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
View ArticleTechnological sublime, a photograph
“For thousands of years, it had been nature–and its supposed creator–that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of...
View ArticleGuitar, a photograph
“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
View ArticleTiny, a photograph
“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our...
View ArticleCandy, a photograph
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all...
View ArticleCheap medicine, a photograph
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ― George Gordon Byron
View ArticleGood at heart, a photograph
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank
View ArticleSolitude, a photograph
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” ― Thomas Mann, Death in...
View ArticleAll we might, a photograph
“The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.” — Alain de Botton
View ArticleWork, a photograph
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may …...
View ArticleLife, a photograph
“It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” – Aldous Huxley
View ArticleIntellect, a photograph
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.” –...
View ArticleWater without sounds, A photograph of fine art.
Below is a photograph of Katsura Finakoshi’s painted camphor wood and marble sculpture “Water without Sounds.” It can be found at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. Mr. Finakoshi deserves more...
View ArticleArt, a photograph
“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.” Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1933
View ArticleFloods, a photograph
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no...
View ArticleGood sea, a photograph
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?” – David Byrne
View ArticleFellows, a photograph
“Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.” – Milan Kundera
View Article99, a photograph
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” – Warren Buffett
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