"It's only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up, you go on... suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.” -- Alberto Giacometti

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” ― Mary Oliver Noguchi, Corner Portrait, 1947, Irving Penn

"Play is a natural ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play." -- RIchard Serra RIP for the man of steel

“There are no miracles, there is only what you make.” -- Tamara de Lempicka

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. - Ryunosuke Satoro

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction. - Wayne W. Dyer

"Time begins in the eyes. Everybody knows that." -- Julio Cortazar

Hans Baumgartner - Limmatquai in Zürich - 1938

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul… - Moshe Dayan

“Music is powerful. Love is powerful. Poetry is powerful. Art is powerful. Be powerful.” - Alice Coltrane

It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our lives that matters…

Andrés Cañal - Barcelone - Delta…

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul… - Robert Wyland

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy… - Ralph H. Blum

Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love... - Pio of Pietrelcina

Willy Ronis - Devant Chez Mestre - Ménilmontant, Paris 1957

"Art is not meant to be pretty. It's meant to make you feel something, to challenge your perceptions, to question your assumptions." -- Sally Mann

Gjon Mili - Professional dancers Willa Mae Ricker & Leon James show off the Lindy Hop, a dance style born in the 1920s - 1943

One should never be cured of one’s passions. —Marguerite Duras

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” —Susan Sontag