"All good things are wild, and free."

Henry David Thoreau

Foto: Espinho 2009

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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

Abraham Lincoln

Foto: Santo Tirso, 2010 

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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Albert Camus

Foto: Porto 2011

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"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings."

W. Kandinsky

Foto: Shakespeare & Co., Paris 2011

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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. "

Confucius

Foto: CCVF, Guimarães 2011

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

Albert Einstein

Foto: Paris 2011

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“I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”

Javan

Foto: Paris 2011

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”

Greek proverb

Foto: Mare Magnum, Barcelona 2009

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"Logic is the anatomy of thought."

John Locke

Foto: Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto 2011

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“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor”

George Bernard Shaw

Foto: Roma 2010

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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”

Muriel Rukeyser



Foto: CCVF, Guimarães 2011
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"Music is what feelings sound like."

Author Unknown

 
Foto: Roma 2010
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"If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Foto: Trevi, Roma 2010

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"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”

Josephine Baker

Foto: Rio Tibre, Roma 2010

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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

Goethe

Foto: Forum Romano, Roma 2009

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“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Foto: Espinho, 2010.
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"Love at the first sight saves a lot of time."

Christopher Marlowe

Foto: Roma, 2009

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"A people free to choose will always choose peace."

Ronald Reagan

Foto: Forum Romano, Roma 2009
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"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."

Wassily Kandinsky

Foto: Porto, 2009

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"Collecting has been my great extravagance."

Howard Hodgkin

Foto: Estação Termini, Roma 2010

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"Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film."

Norman Jewison

Foto: A Vida Portuguesa, Porto 2010

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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

 Fr. Jerome Cummings

Foto: Q. e S., Espinho 2010

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"The faster you go, the shorter you are. "

Albert Einstein

Foto: Estação de S. Bento, Porto 2010

Diana F+ Edelweiss

“Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.”

Oren Arnold

Foto: Braga 2010

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"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Foto:Vigo 2010

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"Moonlight is sculpture."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Foto: C., Vigo 2010

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"[...] Não sei bem o que quero, mesmo dela, e eu não penso senão nela.

Tenho um a grande distracção animada.

Quando desejo encontrá-la

Quase que prefiro não encontrar para não ter que a deixar depois. [...]"

Alberto Caeiro

Foto: Fontana di Trevi, Roma 2010

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"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."

Diana Vreeland

Foto: C., Braga 2010

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"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance."

Sylvia Kristel

Foto: Serralves Em Festa!, Porto 2010
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"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

Johann Sebastian Bach

Foto: Braga 2010
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