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The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.
Philippe HalsmanRead
Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
Vincent Van GoghRead
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
RumiRead
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.
Leonard CohenRead
The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
Warsan ShireRead
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
Elie WieselRead
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
Pablo PicassoRead
We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.
Martin PrechtelRead
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
Yasmin MogahedRead
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.
John WelwoodRead
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
Oswald ChambersRead
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
SaadiRead
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'
RihannaRead
When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
Elaine ScarryRead
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet._x000D_ The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet._x000D_ The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet._x000D_ And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you_x000D_ I haven't said yet.
Naz?M HikmetRead
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.
Tim BrownRead
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul DiracRead
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Katharine HepburnRead
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene DietrichRead

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