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Saul Leiter Self-portrait Painting, New York City c.1950

"I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities." Saul Leiter

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Uncredited Photographer Photographer Saul Leiter with Local Kids, Sicily c.1960

“I wasn’t ambitious or driven. I don’t admire success the way some people do. I was fortunate to fulfill my ambition to be unsuccessful.” Saul Leiter

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Chuck Fishman Blues Musician Muddy waters, New Orleans 1978

“My grandmother didn’t buy hardly anything but church songs, but I got hold of some records with my little nickels, and borrowed some, listened to them very, very carefully. Texas Alexander and Barbecue Bob and Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake — they was my thing to listen to. And to get down to the heavy thing, you go into Son House, Charlie Patton. Roosevelt Sykes been playing at 'Forty-Four Blues' on the piano, I thought that’s the best I ever heard. And then here come Little Brother Montgomery with ‘Vicksburg Blues,’ and I say, ‘Goodgodamighty, these cats going wild.’ At that time seem like everybody could play some kind of instrument and there were so many fellers playing in the jukes ’round Clarksdale I can’t remember them all. But the best we had to my ideas was Sonny House. He used to have a neck of a bottle over his little finger, touch the strings with that and make them sing. That’s where I got the idea from.” Muddy Waters

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Pablo PIcasso Girl With a Mandolin 1910

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." Pablo Picasso

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Fosco Maraini Florence, Italy 1928

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Julian Wasser     Neil Young     c.1972

…There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie…

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Burt Glinn Painter Helen Frankenthaler at Work in Her Studio, West End Ave, Upper West Side, New York City 1957

"In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you’re never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen." Helen Frankenthaler

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Burt Glinn Self-portrait 1954

"I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it." Burt Glinn

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Burt Glinn The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center and the New York City Skyline 1986

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Burt Glinn Guangxi, Yangshuo, China 1980

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Burt Glinn     Writer/Director Louis Malle, Paris     1958

“Filmmakers don’t work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don’t last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.“ Louis Malle

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André Kertész Alexander Calder Working on "Cirque Calder," a Miniature Circus Fashioned from Wire, Cloth, String, Rubber, Cork, and Found Objects, Paris 1929

"My fingers always seem busier than my mind." Alexander Calder

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George Hoyningen-Huene Alexander Calder with Cirque Calder, Calder's First Moving Artwork, Paris 1930

"I always loved the circus, so I decided to make my own circus just for the fun of it." Alexander Calder

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"Where there is a woman there is magic."

Ntozake Shange.

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"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Muhammad Ali

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“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”

Leonard Cohen.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Isabelle Huppert, 1980s