Robert Parkeharrison & H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Photo by Robert Parkeharrison, Pollution



Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't
than by ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
(P.S. I Love You)


Happy New Year!

Rafal Karzc & Sylvia Plath

Photo by Rafal Karzc, Exit 4



I took a deep breathe
and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath,
The Bell Jar

Robert Mapplethorpe & Siddartha Gautama

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, Phillip, Leg on Toes, 1979

There is no path to happiness: 

happiness is the path. 

Siddartha Gautama

Josef Ehm & Hector Berlioz

Photo by Josef Ehm, Prague Gothic and Baroque

Time is a great teacher, 

but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

Lucien Clergue & G.K. Chesterton

Photo by Lucien Clergue

Education 

is simply the soul of a society 

as it passes from one generation 

to another.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Today is World Aids Day: 

please use condom. 

Love your health, love yourself.

Roger Ballen & S. Leszczynski

Photo by Roger Ballen, Cloaked Figure, 2003

Conscience warns us as a friend 

before it punishes as a judge.

Stanislaus Leszczynski

Lucien Clergue & Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Photo by Lucien Clergue, Nu de la foret



All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brassai & J. de La Bruyere

Photo by Brassai, Couple d'amoreux, quartier Place d'Italie, 1932



Love begins with love.
Jean de La Bruyere

Robert Mapplethorpe & Ogden Nash

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, Poppy, 1985


Robert Mapplethorpe, (November 4, 1946-March 9, 1989, American Photographer)

Do not regret growing old, 

many are denied the privilege.

Ogden Nash

Bill Jacobson & George Santayana

Photo by Bill Jacobson, Piece (series)



There is no cure for birth and death
save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana 

Seike Tomio & Martin Luther King Jr.

Photo by Seike Tomio, 32 rue Saint Hon, Glasses




In the end,
we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Masao Yamamoto & Anatole France

Photo by Yamamoto Masao, A box of Ku, 1993



To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France 

Jan Saudek & Joseph Joubert

Jan Saudek, Ilary 5, 1983



We are all old children.

Joseph Joubert 

Mario Cravo Neto & Marcel Achard

Photo by Mario Cravo Neto, Voodoo Child, 1992



Our nature consists in motion,
complete rest is death.
Marcel Achard 

Masahisa Fukase & J.J. Rousseau

Photo by Masahisa Fukase



Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Jean Jacques Rousseau  

Leo Dohmen & Joseph Conrad

Photo by Leo Dohmen




God is for men religion is for women.

Joseph Conrad 

Robert Lebeck & Plato

Funeral in Palermo, Sicily, photo by Lebeck Robert




Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

Pawel Bajew & Samuel Butler

Photo by Pawel Bajew

All animals 

except man 

know 

that the ultimate of life 

is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler 

Vincent Descotils & Jacques Prévert

Sans titre, photo by Vincent Descotils

Les enfants qui s'aiment s'embrassent debout

Contre les portes de la nuit

Et les passants qui passent les désignent du doigt

Mais les enfants qui s'aiment

Ne sont là pour personne

Et c'est seulement leur ombre

Qui tremble dans la nuit

Excitant la rage des passants

Leur rage, leur mépris, leurs rires et leur envie

Les enfants qui s'aiment ne sont là pour personne

Ils sont ailleurs bien plus loin que la nuit

Bien plus haut que le jour

Dans l'éblouissante clarté de leur premier amour

Jacques Prévert

Siausiau Suzuki & John Keats "Bright Star"

Photo by Siausiau Suzuki



"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No yet still stedfast, still unchangeble,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death".

John Keats



www.siausiausuzuki.co.uk 

Herb Ritts & "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo

Vladimir, photo by Herb Ritts, 1990

"Ridi Pagliaccio sul tuo cuore infranto! 

Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!"

From the Opera "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo: "Vesti la Giubba".

Andrea Simoncini & Nathaniel Hawthorne

Meditation, photo by Andrea Simoncini, www.andreasimoncini.com



If we would know what heaven is before come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirit, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Note-books, 1841

Mimmo Pellicola "Anima Mundi" & John Galsworthy

Photo by Mimmo Pellicola


There is nothing more tragic in life than
the utter impossibility of changing what you have done.

John Galsworthy

Jim Long & Bertolt Brecht

Photo by Jim Long, Courtesy Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, NY

War is like love: it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht 

Please, if you recognize the photo and the artist' name write me. I couldn't find it.
Thank you! Beatrice
Thanks to Jim Long, the artist, that wrote me! The photo was published in the catalogue for the exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, DAS BILD DES KORPERS.

Jan Saudek & Edward Everett

Photo by Jan Saudek, Parabellum, 1983



Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

Ken Probst & P. Chesterfield

Photo by Ken Probst "Tattooed twins", San Diego, 1989




Vice,
 in its true light is so deformed
that it shocks us at first sight;
and would hardly ever seduce us,
if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Chesterfield 

Eikoh Hosoe & Victor Hugo

Photo by Heiko Hosoe "Barakei" (Killed by Roses, 1961)



Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Karen Knoor "The Durbar Hall"

Photo by Karen Knoor


Reality can destroy the dream.
Why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore

Robert Parkeharrison & The Architect's Brother

Photo by Robert Parkeharrison


"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahaed.
The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time".

Winston Churchill

Robert Parkeharrison (born 1968) is a photographer, best known for his work (with his wife Shana Parkeharrison) in the area of fine art photography.
He's one of my favourite photographers: to me his photos are like poems.


Website: www.parkeharrison.com 

Robert Doisenau e "Le baiser de l'hotel de Ville"

Photo by  Robert Doisneau (14/4/1912-1/4/1994)


"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street".
Robert Doisneau 
"The Encyclopedia of Photography" (1984)

John Dugdale "The artist's mother" & Jean Paul Sartre

Photo by John Dugdale


Everything comes to us from others.
To be is to belong to someone.

Jean Paul Sartre

Nobuyoshi Araki & The Erotic

Photo by Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese Erotic Photographer)



Always without desire we must be found,
if its deep mystery we would sound
but if desire always within us be,
its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Tao Te Ching 

Reclamation by Robert Parkeharrison.

(I love it!) Photo by Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, www.parkeharrison.com

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight David Eisenhower

Sarah Jane Lynagh & G. Santayana

Photo by Sarah Jane Lynagh

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

Andrea Simoncini Gibson and "The Supernatural"

Photo "Mother and doll" by Andrea Simoncini Gibson (www.andreasimoncini.com)


As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of nature - in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing - he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

Honore De Balzac 

The Queen's room by Karen Knoor

Karen Knorr makes me dream. 

Her photos are a mix of history, magic,  and freedom. 

My soul breathes watching her wonderful pictures. 

The charming locations, the animals as protagonists and the bright colors make my heart beats wondering to be there in that perfect moment.