That The Beauty of Life Does Not Fade
… I also close the books, as Don Quijote did, and get up from the table, and go out to the street. And then I discover the beauty of life. And I get very nervous, because everything is fiercely intense: the people, the streets, the trees, the houses, the traffic lights, the clouds, the shops. And then back home. And I don’t want anything to be lost. And I open the computer. And I write, as hundreds of human beings wrote before me, with the same intention that the beauty of life does not fade…
~ Manuel Vilas
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You and I don’t know whether our vision is clear in relation to our time or not — No matter what failure or success we may have — we will not know — But we can keep our integrity — according to our own sense of balance with the world and that creates our form —
What others have called form has nothing to do with our form — I want to create my own and I can’t do anything else — if I stop to think of what others — authorities or the public — or anyone — would say of my form I’d not be able to do anything.
~ Georgia O’Keeffe
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I photographed the popular culture of the United States differently from American photographers. I saw the enormous vitality of the country. I didn’t see it as suffering…I was seeing America with an…
