“The top of the ocean can be total chaos, but underneath, in the depths, there can be silence.”— Melissa Broder, nytimes.com
“I know back doors and the colors and shades of exit-only signs like I know the shape of my own body. And what I mean to say is that there’s always some sort of leaving, something that never stays; that there’s something that never quite sticks.”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“Moving forward, Google has agreed to make changes in Image Search, including making the copyright disclaimer more prominent and removing the view image button. In addition, we're announcing that Getty Images and Google have embarked on a global strategic partnership that will see deeper integration…”— Getty Images, iStock, app.engage.gettyimages.com
“My anxiety is a child who plays tag with my intestines, braids fishtails with my pulse. While she naps unseen under caramel moons, I wake to find her blameless.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“She said, ‘You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn – curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who cre…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“But the woman came to her then. The woman with hair of red like roses, hair of white like snowfall. She was young and old. She was blind and could see everything. She spoke softly, in whispers, but her voice carried across the mountain ranges like sleeping giants, the cities lit like fairies and the…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“I want people to start to see people for their total beauty. I want people to go out in the world and look at people for their character; the color of their skin [and] their ethnicity is just a bonus to all of that, not an indication of who they are”— Karen Okonkwo, theoutline.com
“I’m an artist creating perfect images at every moment, then melting down those images before your eyes.”— Rumi, twitter.com
“The massive power of commercial media can only be countered by alternative images from world art and culture.”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“What’s more thrilling than the beauty and energy of youth? What could be more compelling than bearing witness to the sex and death drives merged together in the specific type of reckless abandon that can only be realized by bodies unencumbered by the anchors of time? It is a freedom that, once found…”— David Rimanelli, ryanmcginley.com
“Anytime I photograph a person, there is loss implicit in the image, because the next time I photograph them, they will have changed.”— Jock Sturges, amazon.com
“Whether or not we can create psychological effects as a result of working with imagery, it appears that sometimes our thoughts can have effects on our immune systems as found in a field of investigation that has come to be known as psychoneuroimmunology (O'Regan, 1983). In one study, rats were given…”— Imants Baruss, amazon.com