Athenascope Quotes & Sayings

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears. — N.K. Jemisin

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H Gass

I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova ... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing. — Scott Sanders

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. — Mark Twain

Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once. — James Gray