Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.
One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.
You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?
I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if. . . '; And then do it.
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.