“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.” -Jodi Picoult
Stas Kadrulev
Photography
Zachary Gaudrillot-Roy
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.” -Samuel Beckett
Rebecca Millen
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.” -Richard Feynman
Evelyn Bencicova
“Time is strange. It doesn’t always help. Or heal. Sometimes it just passes.”
-Ash Parsons-Still Waters
Vivian Maier (1926-2009)
“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” -Robert Orben
Alexandra Laffitte
“I used to believe in many things, all of it! Now, I believe only in dynamite.”
-James Coburn, Duck, You Sucker
Marek Wurfl
“I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.”
-Billy Connolly
Roberto De Mitri
“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.” -Robert R. McGammon
Marie Cecile Thijs
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” -Douglas Adams
