Ripeness is all
“What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure Their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. Come on”. William Shakespeare
Jogging in 2 Pics
“The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend”. Henri Bergson
Visiting Grazie
“Truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacreds”. Ludwig Feuerbach
Marmomac 2024
“One who can move mountains start with the little stones”. Confucius
Viale alberato
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good”. John Steinbeck
Next Stop Afragola
“Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters”. Seneca
Rural Archaeology
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience”. Lev Tolstoj
A Foggy Day
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street”. Fernando Pessoa
Winter Memories
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought”. Henri Bergson
A Foggy Day
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air”. William Shakespeare
Rallentare
“Ho imparato una verità che pochi conoscono: che l’arte elargisce le sue consolazioni soprattutto agli artisti falliti”. Eugenio Montale
Dreams and Memory
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”. Edgar Allan Poe
Summer Sky after Rain
“L’arte è un appello al quale troppi rispondono senza essere stati chiamati”. Leo Longanesi
Summer Wheat
“To be alive at all is to have scars”. John Steinbeck
Another Tree
“I see everywhere in nature, for example in trees, capacity for expression and, as it were, a soul”. Vincent Van Gogh
Summer Walk
“V’è un’estasi che segna il culmine della vita, oltre il quale la vita non può innalzarsi. E, tale è il paradosso del vivere, quell’estasi giunge quandi più si è vivi, […]
Apocalypse Now
“You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time […]
Centrale del Latte
“As humans, when we say “I” we mean our memory. Memory is soul”. Umberto Eco
Viale Piave
“La periferia è una terra di margini, dove il centro incontra la sua ombra”. Italo Calvino
Scalo Merci
“Amo la periferia più della città. Amo tutte le cose che stanno ai margini”. Carlo Cassola
Corso Porta Nuova
“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything”. Simone Weil
Spring in 3 Acts
“Light is the most important person in the picture”. Claude Monet
Through the Words
“If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are”. T. S. Eliot
Le campane di Bonizzo
“Trasognato e felice per viucole antiche, vagavo sotto un cielo vicino alla pioggia. Leggero ai passi m’era il suolo e vaniva la via sotto il piede come un fiume di […]
San Giovanni in Valle
“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves”. Robert Frost
Along the River
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container”. Wallace Stevens
San Pietro Apostolo
“All great and precious things are lonely”. John Steinbeck
The sun, the smoke, the man
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”. Robert Frost
Stormir d’ali
“Il più grande ostacolo alla compresione di un’opera d’arte è quello di voler capire”. Bruno Munari
Exhibition
“The medium is the message”. Marshall McLuhan
Lonely Tree on Summer Day
“Little things console us because little things afflict us”. Blaise Pascal
Playing in Venice
“Play is the work of childhood”. Jean Piaget
Piazza Bra
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding”. Claude Monet
Multiple exposure
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth”. Marcus Aurelius
Riverlight
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”. James Joyce
From Above
“The past is always an invented land”. Orhan Pamuk
A Day of Summer
“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go”. Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff
A Kind of Texture
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers”. Alfred Tennyson
In the City
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know”. Diane Arbus
Sabbionetta
“The most valuable things in a life are a man’s memories. And they are priceless”. Andre Kertesz
Lungo il fiume
“Pretese delle parole; pretendono di regolare i conti con quello che succede là fuori, di descriverlo e definirlo. Ma là fuori tutto si svolge non in questo o in quel […]
Luci, linee, ombre
“Anche l’intimità che portiamo con noi fa parte del paesaggio, il suo tono è dato dallo spazio che si apre là fuori ad ogni occhiata; ed anche i pensieri sono […]
Architettura Rurale
“Le idee che ho portato in viaggio, non sono capace di servirmene. Troppo diversi i pensieri che vengono muovendosi da quelli che si accumulano a casa propria, sono due cose […]
Strada sul Po
“Le cose sono là che navigano nella luce, escono dal vuoto per aver luogo ai nostri occhi. Noi siamo implicati nel loro apparire e scomparire, quasi che fossimo qui proprio […]
A Foggy Day
“I was a stranger in the city Out of town were the people I knew I had that feeling of self-pity What to do, what to do, what to do […]
Under the Trees
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky”. Kahlil Gibran
Tagliatelle
“Spaghetti, pollo, insalatina e una tazzina di caffè a malapena riesco a mandar giù… Invece ti ricordi che appetito insieme a te a Detroit”. Fred Bongusto
Disordered Thoughts
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”. John Muir
Some Seconds of Sea
“I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on […]
Perdersi a Guardare
“Paradossalmente proprio gli angoli più consueti, quelli canonici, quelli che abbiamo sempre sotto gli occhi e che abbiamo sempre visto, sembrano diventare misteriosamente pieni di novità e aspetti imprevisti. Affidandoci […]
Albero Padano
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes”. Soren Kierkegaard
Stazione Frigorifera
“The meaning of quality in photography’s best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system”. Walker Evans
Paganesimo e Pianura
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known”. Blaise Pascal
Life goes on
“It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter”. Mary Ellen Mark
Through the Alley
“Photography is the art of making memories tangible”. Destin Sparks
Summer Shadows
“There is an aesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence”. Richard Dawkins
On the Beach
“I think of photography like therapy”. Harry Gruyaert
Lunch Break
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less”. G.K. Chesterton
Walk of Life
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path”. Buddha
Cycladic Stairway
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event”. Carl Gustav Jung
Into the Forest
“The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the […]
Rocky Coast
“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters”. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
What Have You Been
“Nobody — that’s my name”. Odysseus
A Misty Night
“It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful”. Oscar Wilde
Lungadige Capuleti
“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity”. T.S. Eliot
Snowy Tree
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, […]
Winter Road
“Where there is nothing, there is God”. W.B. Yeats
Ponte Pietra
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but builds no house on it”. Indian Proverb
Valpolicella
“Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past”. Walt Disney
Riva San Lorenzo
“The original is unfaithful to the translation”. Jorge Luis Borges
Under Rocks
“Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space”. Jackson Pollock
Samedi Pluvieux
“La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine, Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords, Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine”. Charles Baudelaire
Boundaries
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end”. William Shakespeare
Night Walk
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Through the Gate
“Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength”. Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
The eternal ritual of summer
“Per quest’anno non cambiare stessa spiaggia stesso mare”. Mogol / Soffici
Summer Memories
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”. Winston Churchill
The First Day of Summer
“Tornerà un altro inverno Cadranno mille pètali di rose La neve coprirà tutte le cose E forse un’altra estate tornerà”. Bruno Martino
Before the Rain
“When you’re a child you learn there are three dimensions Height, width and depth Like a shoebox Then later you hear there’s a fourth dimension Time Hmm Then some say […]
Black Sea White Boat
“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use“. Sam Abell
Spring comes on a Rainy Day
“This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock“. Edward Weston
Cold House
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye“. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
At the Port
“One can advise comfortably from a safe port”. Soren Kierkegaard
A Door to Blue
“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.“. John Steinbeck
Rain on a Winter Day
“Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers- dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters“. Pablo Picasso
The Call of the Wild
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well”. Jack London
San Giovanni in Valle
“A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter“. Jean Cocteau
The Darkness
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering”. Yoda
Hard Paths of Faith
“For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith”. Soren Kierkegaard
Walk into the Future
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”. George Bernard Shaw
Blue Doors
“Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation…“. Paul Strand
Secret Garden
“Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind”. T. […]
Lights & Shadows
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”. Andy Warhol
The Summer is magic
“The summer is magic, is magic oh oh oh the summer is magic You have to imagine, imagine oh oh oh the summer is magic”. Playahitty
Rust in Peace
“You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus“. Mark Twain
Forgotten Things
“I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before“. Robert Mapplethorpe
Under a Tree
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see“. Jean Piaget
Changement
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly”. Henri Bergson
Rocks Shapes
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sant’Alvise
“A good picture is born from a state of grace. Grace becomes manifest when one is free from conventions, free as a child in his first discovery of reality. The […]
In the rat’s alley
“E se tutto questo bujo, quest’enorme mistero, nel quale indarno i filosofi dapprima specularono, e che ora, pur rinunziando all’indagine di esso, la scienza non esclude, non fosse in fondo […]
The Butcher
“I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it […]
Via Pellicciai
“There is no truth. There is only perception”. Gustave Flaubert
Strange Life
“The truth, once love has failed, looks like a skeleton abandoned in a meadow: explicit, ordered and, in the end, almost pleasant. It had always been there, but covered with […]
Vegetables
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food”. George Bernard Shaw
Through the Fog
“Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It’s what’s left behind that I like to photograph“. Michael […]
Along the Road
“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously”. Banana Yoshimoto
In Rocks We Trust
“How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man”. Umberto Eco
Trees like men
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To the sea
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time”. T. S. […]
A tribute to Edward Weston
“Sono le cose ordinarie che rivelano quelle forme che ci dicono di uno stato superiore dell’essere per cui penso che una tale pacata felicità sia la più elevata posizione riservata […]
Yellow Rose
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot”. Salvador Dalí
It was April
“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare, And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by whips of air”. Gordon Comstock
After the Storm
“There is peace even in the storm”. Vincent van Gogh
Like a star
“We’re up all night ’til the sun, We’re up all night to get some We’re up all night for good fun, We’re up all night to get lucky”. Daft Punk
Sunny Afternoon
“If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination”. Paulo Coelho
Country House
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler”. Friedrich Nietzsche
The quiet sense of something lost
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be”. Alfred Tennyson
Milestones
“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required”. Winston […]
Meditations
“In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also”. Friedrich Holderlin
Intesection
“When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realize that the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the idea that there is […]
The Sound of Wind
“It’s different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused”. Lev Tolstoj
Personalities
“Chi si colloca al centro del mondo cade sulla propria frontiera”. Alda Merini
Beyond Words
“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter”. William Shakespeare
Cold Spring
“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great […]
The measure of Ego
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction”. Lev […]
Images and Imagination
“We seem to reinvent our memories, and in doing so, we become the person of our own imagination”. Elizabeth Loftus
A Narrow View
“L’arte è un investimento di capitali, la cultura un alibi”. Ennio Flaiano
Tiberghien
“È cosa vana distogliersi dal passato per pensare soltanto all’avvenire. È una illusione pericolosa pensare soltanto che sia possibile. L’opposizione tra avvenire e passato è assurda”. Simone Weil
Countryside
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible”. Pablo Picasso
A foggy day
“The more one judges, the less one loves”. Honore de Balzac
Bright Thoughts
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”. Martin Luther King, […]
Just for Money
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion“. Voltaire
La Veritàaaa
“Ci sono dei lembi di pensiero, come delle mele sbocconcellate, dei torsoli di mele ma sempre di carattere individuale cioè di origine individuale e mai collettiva… per questo i problemi […]
White Night
“Suffering passes; having suffered never passes”. Charles Péguy
Hopeful Thoughts
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self”. Aldous Huxley
Green Door
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken”. Jonathan Swift
Sound of Leaves
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”. Soren Kierkegaard
Lost in lines
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. Leonardo da Vinci
Autumn Afternoon
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against”. Bruce Lee
Summer is…
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer”. Albert Camus
What was and will be
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
Ieri, oggi, domani
“Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune”. Honoré de Balzac
What I belong to
“Solitudine non è essere soli, è amare gli altri inutilmente”. Mario Stefani
Sunflowers
“Refusing to love for fear of suffering is like refusing to live in fear of dying”. Jim Morrison
Thoughts through trees
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires”. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Spring Sky
“Our worst fears lie in anticipation”. Honoré de Balzac
Searching the light
“Sed perge in tenebris radiorum quaerere lucem Non nisi ab obscura sidera nocte micant”.
Boundaries
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear”. Friedrich Nietzsche
Almond Blossom
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”. Marcel Proust
States of Being
“Nothing is built on stone. All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone”. Jorge Luis Borges
Take me Home
“Home, let me come home Home is wherever I’m with you Home, let me come home Home is wherever I’m with you”. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero
Breaking News
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies”. Emily Dickinson
A Day of Snow
“Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint”. Turkish Proverb
The Mountain
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”. Henry David Thoreau
Tunnel (Your Way)
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before”. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cold Branches
“…like a branch that tries to break away from the tree. It will wither and come to a bad end.” William Shakespeare
Tree, house, dog
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times…” Charles Bukowski
By the Smokestack
“From the time the sun left home there’s something they just ignore is that you can play with fire but this won’t stop your ire”. An Harbor
Autumn Flowers
“La mia esistenza è simile a quella delle piante; vivo come i fiori imprigionati dietro le cancellate del castello di Oberhofen. Sono un animale in gabbia, poiché vincoli materiali e […]
Watching the sea
“Ho salutato chi mi ha tradito, ho dato il mio rispetto a chi mi ha calpestato l’anima. Ho perdonato cose che se Dio sapesse mi direbbe stupida”. Veronica Marchi
Windy Tree
“Lascio una scia bianca e torbida; pallide acque, gote ancor più pallide, dovunque io navighi. I flutti gelosi si gonfiano ai lati per sommergere la mia traccia; lo facciano; ma […]
Stages of Life
“Le vere epoche della vita sono quei brevi periodi di sosta che si trovano in mezzo, fra l’alzarsi e l’abbassarsi di un pensiero o sentimento dominante. Qui c’è ancora una […]
Partenze intelligenti
“Scrisse il poeta Antonio Porta che le società umane sono organizzate come una grande, gigantesca parodia della vita militare. Nessun esempio può comprovare questa tesi meglio delle grandi vacanze di […]
About Love
“Esistono persone al mondo, poche per fortuna, che credono di poter barattare una intera via crucis con una semplice stretta di mano, o una visita al museo, e che si […]
I was a tree
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” Dolly Parton
Have a cigarette?
“It’s toasted.” Don Draper
Trees in the Fog
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” Henry Matisse
Palazzo Ducale
“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking […]
Multiple Exposure of Venice
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson