You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky (via quote-book)
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
—Susan Sontag (via kari-shma)
(Source: kari-shma)
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci (via aplacecalledfreedom)
(via quote-book)
That I exist is a perpetual surprise.
—Tagore (via fulpakru)
(Source: trashandtrampolines, via quote-book)

Trang Tran Photography - NYC 10/2010 - Financial District
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus
(Source: thresca, via quote-book)
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know about them.
—Annie Leibovitz

J.An Photography - ING NYC Marathon Nov 7, 2010
A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a
symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture,
not an exercise in contortionist techniques and
sheer print quality.
It is or should be a significant document, a
penetrating statement.
—Berenice Abbott

J.An Photography - ING NYC Marathon Nov 7, 2010
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
—Diane Arbus

J.An Photography - Portrait#1, Soho NY 10/2010
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
—Marilyn Monroe

J.An Photography - Subway#2, New York 10/2010
You’re using your headphones to drown out your mind.
—Regina Spektor