"Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free." -- Richard Avedon

“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.” -- Nina Simone.

“Shooting with a Leica is like a long tender kiss" -- Henri Cartier-Bresson St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 1962

"No matter how hard the world pushes against me, there's something stronger -- something better, pushing right back." -- Albert Camus

"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.” ― Charles Bukowski

"Just resonate with the frequency of me." -- Esperanza Spalding

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear." -- Samuel Beckett Paris, 1979, Avedon

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

"The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is." -- Tom Stoppard

To celebrate #Bloomsday here’s a photo of Anthony Burgess exploring the ruins of Leopold and Molly Bloom’s house at 7 Eccles Street, Dublin in February 1965.

"The world is full of actors pretending to be human>" -- J. D. Salinger

"There are no rules." — Helen Frankenthaler

There is no algorithm for creativity. Rui Palha, Lisbon

Minor White.

"The moment you give up your principles and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." --Oriana Fallaci

"No fear, no limits, no boundaries." -- Issey Miyake

"Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream." --Erykah Badu

"Nothing is more real than nothing." -- Samuel Beckett

Estragon:" We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?" Vladimir: "Yes, yes, we're magicians.” ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Issey Miyake New York City 1990 Irving Penn