Claudio

“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
― Vivekananda

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda