"The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words."
Elliott Erwitt #WorldPhotographyDay
"If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you." Robert Doisneau
"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
Robert Doisneau
"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." Alfred Eisenstaedt
"My women are always victorious." Helmut Newton
"When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears."
Philippe Halsman
"In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera." Philippe Halsman
"Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand".
Margaret Bourke-White
Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman.
Bette Davis by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
"For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture."
Diane Arbus
"To me, the face – the eyes, the expression of the mouth – is the thing that reflects character. It is the only part of the body that permits us to see the inner person."
Philippe Halsman
Bette Davis by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
"The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it."
Édouard Boubat
"None of my photographs are great photographs. They’re just pictures that hopefully record a moment to make you laugh, or smile, and sometimes cry."
Lord Snowdon
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"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think."
A. A. Milne
📷 Howard Coster
🎨 Ernest Howard Shepard
Alan Alexander Milne fue el creador de Winnie the Pooh. Se inspiró en un peluche de su hijo, Christopher Robin, a quien escribía cuentos. #WinnieThePoohDay
"What day is it?", asked Pooh.
"It’s today", squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day", said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
"My library is an archive of longings."
Susan Sontag
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
Susan Sontag
📷 Annie Leibovitz
"A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness."
Susan Sontag