firsttimeuser:

“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin’s bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.”
—Norman Parkinson [brainy quote] [gallery]

firsttimeuser:

“…a good photograph must have the element of good design: Everything within the photograph has to be essential. It’s never like a painting where you can have it perfect. It shouldn’t be absolutely perfect. That would kill it.”
—Leonard Freed [gallery]

bbook:

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger … everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there’s got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It’s like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, ‘Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.’ You understand it, but you don’t understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That’s the most beautiful thing.

hiredgoons:

“I was traveling once, in the East, a man had died and I passed by a funeral. I thought everyone should be sad, but they weren’t sad, they were throwing a party; and then I realized everything is really just how you think about it.”