"To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart." Henri Cartier-Bresson

Barber, India

Baltimore Harbor

Goat Herder, Tibet

"When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls." Ted Grant

“When you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.” Eudora Welty

"The appropriate school for studying art is not Life but Art itself." Oscar Wilde

Montmartre, Paris

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." Robert Frank

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." Da Vinci

Bangok

"Life is absurd. You can fill it with ideas. You can fill it enthusiasm. You can fill it with joy. That’s all you can do." Albert Camus

Portland, Maine

Baltimore, Maryland

Evora, Portugal

Arles, France

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” Anthony Burgess

Istanbul

Aix-en-Provence

Rome

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange

“We must cultivate our garden.” Voltaire

You don’t take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams

Avignon, France

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"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." ~ Rumi