Bill Brandt & Hafiz of Shiraz

Photo by Bill Brandt 1952 Perspective of nudes 


I wish
 I could
show you
when you are lonely or in darkness
the astonishing light
of your own being.

Hafiz of Shiraz 

Horst P. Horst & William Faulkner

Photo by Horst P. Horst for Vogue 1930



You
cannot swim
for new horizons
 until
 you have courage to lose sight
of the shore.


William Faulkner 

 

Edouard Boubat & William W. Purkey

Photo by Edouard Boubat, Shooting the movie "En souriant à l'invisible", Paris, 1998





You've gotta dance
 like there's nobody watching,
love like you'll never be hurt,
sing like there's nobody listening,
and live like it's heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

William Albert Allard & Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Photo by William Albert Allard, 1995, Sicily

Three things are ever silent:

thought,

 destiny

 and

 the grave.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 

Claudio Parentela & Diamanda Galas

Artwork by Claudio Parentela



At the dark end of the street
That's where we always meet
Hiding in shadows
 where we don't belong
Living in darkness to hide our wrong
You and me
 at the dark end of the street,
 you and me.

Diamanda Galas
At the Dark End of the Street


A big thanks to the artist.
www.claudioparentela.net

Sergio Larrain & William Faulkner

Photo by Sergio Larrain




We must be free
 not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.

William Faulkner 

Robert Parkeharrison & E. E. Cummings

Photo by Robert Parkeharrison


It takes courage
to grown up
and became
who
you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Laure Albin-Guillot & Elodie Santos

Photo by Laure Albin-Guillot, Main avec rose,1935


Printemps qui vient fleurir le temps
arrive un jour sans que l'on voit venir
Printemps qui vient comme le vent
souffler sur l'hiver et le faire partir
Printemps qui vient renaitre à nouveau
nous caresser la peau et nous faire sourire
Printemps qui vient avec la Douceur
accueillir le Soleil qu'on avait oublié
Printemps qui vient nous réchauffer
arroser les jardins, faire jaillir les fleurs
Printemps que vient nous dire Je t'aime
aufin qu'on puisse tout recommencer.

Elodie Santos
2009

Robert Parkharrison & Robert Frost

Photo by Robert Parkharrison, Da Vinci's wings (self-portrait)



In three words I can sum up
everything
I've learned about life:
it goes on.

Robert Frost

Federica de Ruvo & Pablo Neruda

Venus, photo by Federica de Ruvo, 2010



I love you
as
certain dark things
are to be loved,
in secret,
between the shadow
and the soul.

Pablo Neruda
100 Love Sonnets

Thanks to Federica de Ruvo. 

For more informations:

http://cargocollective.com/federicaderuvo/

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

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

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 

Pawel Bajew & Samuel Butler

Photo by Pawel Bajew

All animals 

except man 

know 

that the ultimate of life 

is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler 

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".

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