It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.
A photographer who wants to see. . . . must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?. . . . Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.
The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.