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"I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities." Saul Leiter

“I wasn’t ambitious or driven. I don’t admire success the way some people do. I was fortunate to fulfill my ambition to be unsuccessful.” Saul Leiter

“My grandmother didn’t buy hardly anything but church songs, but I got hold of some records with my little nickels, and borrowed some, listened to them very, very carefully. Texas Alexander and Barbecue Bob and Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake — they was my thing to listen to. And to get down to the heavy thing, you go into Son House, Charlie Patton. Roosevelt Sykes been playing at 'Forty-Four Blues' on the piano, I thought that’s the best I ever heard. And then here come Little Brother Montgomery with ‘Vicksburg Blues,’ and I say, ‘Goodgodamighty, these cats going wild.’ At that time seem like everybody could play some kind of instrument and there were so many fellers playing in the jukes ’round Clarksdale I can’t remember them all. But the best we had to my ideas was Sonny House. He used to have a neck of a bottle over his little finger, touch the strings with that and make them sing. That’s where I got the idea from.” Muddy Waters

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." Pablo Picasso

Fosco Maraini Florence, Italy 1928

…There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie…

"In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you’re never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen." Helen Frankenthaler

"I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it." Burt Glinn

Burt Glinn The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center and the New York City Skyline 1986

Burt Glinn Guangxi, Yangshuo, China 1980

“Filmmakers don’t work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don’t last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.“ Louis Malle

"My fingers always seem busier than my mind." Alexander Calder

"I always loved the circus, so I decided to make my own circus just for the fun of it." Alexander Calder

Ntozake Shange.

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Muhammad Ali

Leonard Cohen.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Isabelle Huppert, 1980s