All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker
Pandora’s Box
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
Joan Didion
Imogen Cunningham
“Anyway, we were together,” she said. “We were together all our lives. If you count thinking about it.”
Joan Didion
George Hoyningen-Huene
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
E.O. Hoppe, Gina Palerme in Costume for Bric-a-Brac at the Palace Theatre, 1915
Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
Frank O’Hara
Ellen Auerbach, Eckstein With Lipstick, 1930
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
Frank O’Hara
Germaine Krull, Self-portrait, ca. 1930
In a world where you are possible my love nothing can go wrong for us, tell me
Frank O’Hara
Alma Lavenson, Self-portrait, 1932
Tell the truth but tell it slant—
Emily Dickinson
Madame Yevonde
Be ordinary and bourgeois in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
G. Flaubert
Tina Modotti
Morris’s final picture of Clara was of her in her Japanese kimono, walking up the stairs to her room as she briefly looked back at him over her shoulder. Neither one knew at the time that it was the last picture. And nine months later he was gone for good.
Eight Girls Taking Pictures
