January
Serendipity
A propensity for making fortuitous discoveries while looking for something unrelated.
Chuck Jones
The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.William James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Joan Miro
Go to the beach and make graphic signs in the sand, draw by pissing on the dry ground, design in space by recording the songs of the birds, the sounds of water and wind… …and the chant of insects.Ansel Adams
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?"
Henri Cartier Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Paul Klee
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Kurt Vonnegut
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'
Andreas Feininger
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
Maggie Sherwood
Photgraphers are lousy editors.
Pablo Picasso
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.