Aphorisms
Beauty
"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting."
-Kahlil Gibran
Design
"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."
-Eliel Saarinen, "Time," July 2, 1956. Quoted by his son Eero, Time 2 June 1977.
Light
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
- Charles Dickens
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Painting
"My father, who mistrusted imagination, said: ‘If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model you risk becoming sterotyped, because your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves whereas Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself."
- Director Jean Renoir, referring to his father, the painter
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Photography
"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style."
- Anonymous
"Photography is an immediate action, drawing is meditation."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 24 July 1972
