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valerian: “You need a Leica if you’re going to shoot real life and happiness. Kind-heartedness,...
“You need a Leica if you’re going to shoot real life and happiness. Kind-heartedness, life and people: it all boils down in the long run to love and affection. The Leica has just the right lens, shutter noise, and style to make it go perfectly with this kind of feeling. Like I said before, the Leica makes its presence in an incredibly reserved way. You get the impression that even the subject of your photo looks calmer and gentler.
It looks really refined and expensive as well. That’s another thing I like about it. With a cheap and shoddy camera all you can take are cheap and shoddy photographs. The photographs you take are a reflection of the camera you’re using!”
- Nobuyoshi Araki
via Self, Life, Death
"From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had publis
From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things.
When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with.
At 75 I’ll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects.
When I am 80 you will see real progress.
At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself.
At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist.
At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before.
To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my self ‘The Old Man Mad About Drawing.
”- Hokusai Katsushika
"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
- Orson Welles, The Third Man
"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."
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