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.

 

Blues musicians don’t retire. They drop.

Video Quotes

I never photograph reality.

Art is not about art. Art is about life

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever kind of work it may be, he becomes inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive, and creative. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows that there are more pages possible.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.