Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944
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The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCI cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCWhen we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897