Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Art accepts what it finds.

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.