Muse of the Day
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Émile Zola
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War