"There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or streching eyeless years,
The early lilacs became part of the child,
And grass and white and red morning-glories and white and red clover,
and the song of the phoebe-bird..."
-Walt Whitman 1819-1892
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?" -Yousuf Karsh
"It is only when we transcend our subject in our art that that happens - a subject alone is not enough - I have had it happen when I have simply painted bottles. When people appreciate that work I know something about them."-Roz Smith
Good Photographs like good books, or a resonant mellow old violin, possess a soul....A violin sings to you, a book holds a mental seance with you and makes you think. Even so a photograph can talk to you. If it is the better type of photograph it not only talks to you, but strikes you between the eyes and makes you gasp for breath. -Ruth Harriet Louise 1903-1940
"g-d makes the picture; it's up to the photographer to be there." -who said that?
"To a man, the 'good type' of female nudes are about the truth, delicacy, and mystery of feminine beauty. The 'wonderment' of man since he was a small boy. The way G_d made him! The nude does not unveil the mystique; it does just the opposite. Then going on to paraphrase my friend ....'there are nudes, male and female, in artistic poses that show the body as objects. Then there are those which show the body as person--here I am, unmasked.' The last is what I strive for." -2002 in discussion with Nancy Riley Smith
-from Searching For Mercy Street by Linda Gray Sexton
quoted from Psalm 127
Lie still with me and watch. -Anne Sexton "The Fortress"
-Ann Sexton "The Rowing Endeth"
from Labyrinth in "Waiting for the Paraclete"
