Quotes on Photography, Art, Philosophy, Humour, PoliticsQuotes 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.

 

In the arts there are many right answers.

— Jerry Uelsmann

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There are no shortcuts to excellence.

— Ansel Adams

I’m Elmore. After me there won’t be no more.

— Elmore James

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

It’s that I don’t like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

— Helmut Newton

I’ll play my blues for you, best I can do.

— Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

— Eugene Ionesco

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

— G.K. Chesterton

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

— Vincent van Gogh