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