“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.” TalentYouthMaterialsPerfectionHollywoodClaimsLays Author:Juliet Stevenson
“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.” MenWellsChildrenMadeRealSelfPlaySpiritualLaughingYouthFlowerReturnSorrowSceneBirdPicksIdealsGardenPerfectionDifficultyNobleAwakeningPetCherishButterflyMaking LoveAbandonmentSpiritual AwakeningMaidensReal SelfMerrimentEscapade Author:Confucius
“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.” IfsWayShouldTodayStrongWomenResponsibilityYouthCreatingPhotographyPerfectionResponsibleIndependentPhotographerTerrorOne WayStrong WomenReflectingIndependent WomenWomen In Society Author:Peter Lindbergh
“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.” SelfDreamMightValuesPassionImaginationYouthGloryIdealsPerfectionPursuitUrgesAdolescenceBoundlessAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionPersonalizedSelf Perfection Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!” YearsMightWould BeRealizingHoursYouthPerfectionPressesAddFelicityWisdom And Experience Author:Lydia Sigourney
“Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.” FeelsAgeBeautifulCertainCultureMy OwnYouthRight NowGoodnessPerfectionCriticizeIrrelevantBackyards Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano