Quotes can motivate, inspire and bring insight, through well-expressed wisdom, wit and wordsmithing.    Careful phrasing contributes to the effectiveness, some  even becoming parts of society’s lexicon,  with phrases so powerful,  they become a generations mantra.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

—Thomas Edison

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Well-expressed wisdom, effectively phrased with a well-structured strong message and  imagery,  appeals to our aspirational nature.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,

Video Quotes

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there 
exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you 
are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman 
will not appear and completely shame the supposed 
beauty of the first.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

A camera can not transform you into an artist (or a photographer). But it can provide you with a pretty good excuse to over indulge in a lot of self-discovery and personal revelation.

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

There is no must in art because art is free.