Quotations

"All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected."

— Edouard Boubat, French photographer, born 1923

"There is something instinctive about the moment you choose to 'take' a photograph. It's not the result of thought or reflection. The strength of the composition is always born of the instant of the decision. It reminds me of archery. There is the tension of the bow and the free flight of the arrow."

— Edouard Boubat, French photographer. born 1923

"Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come. If I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable."

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter, born 1825

"We must always be on the lookout for perverse dynamic processes which carry even good things to excess. It is precisely these excesses which become the most evil things in the world. The devil, after all, is a fallen angel."

— Kenneth Boulding, English-born American economist, born 1910

"The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one, yet the life of a whole life dies when love is done."

— Francis Bourdillon, British poet, born 1852

"Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand."

— Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer, born 1904

"Work to me is a sacred thing."

— Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer, born 1904

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

— David Bowie, English singer, born 1947

"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."

— David Bowie, English singer, born 1947

"Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have."

— David Bowie, English singer, born 1947

"As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?"

— David Bowie, English singer, born 1947

"I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life."

— Malcolm Boyd, American priest, born 1923

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

— Henry Boye, Publisher of Harvard Business Review, born 1949

"When it’s time to grieve, when it’s time to celebrate, when it’s time to heal, when it’s time love, when it’s time to explain the unexplainable, we turn to poetry. And in the midst, we learn something about ourselves and others. Poetry helps us hold up a mirror to ourselves and helps us to see ourselves and the world in a clearer light."

— Jennifer Bartell Boykin, American poet