Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
- Raymond Loewy
My daddy bought this car before I was born
Sure like the radio, I love the horn
I love the great big shiny steerin’ wheel
Here in my daddy’s Oldsmobile
- Hal Ketchum
The California poppy is a cup of gold; it holds the sunshine.
– Luther Burbank
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Palm trees, always palm trees.
Balloon glow.
“I don’t press the shutter. The image does, and it’s like being gently clobbered.”
– Diane Arbus
“What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?”
– Julia Margaret Cameron
“Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings”
- Jule Styne and Comden and Green
Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
- Elliott Erwitt
“It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.”
- David Hockney
Well I can’t paint but I have a camera…and the palm trees are hard to miss.
It doesn’t cost any more to make something pretty.
— Jaguar Cars founder Sir William Lyons
1957 Buick abstract
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn’t you?
- Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard, 6 June 1888
