Quotes from Pointing at Stuff — Pointing at Stuff 👈

A two-story brick building at an intersection, featuring a mural with the text "Welcome to IMANMARK" and graffiti on the lower walls. There are large industrial windows, some with metal awnings, and a person walking on the sidewalk. A scooter is parked nearby, and a portable toilet is visible on the right side.

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.”

— Daneil Burnham

Black and white photo of a small town street scene, with a sidewalk, a large tree, and buildings including a theater with a sign reading 'Majestic'.

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

— C.S. Lewis

A black round table with two plastic bottles on top and a purple chair beneath it, situated on grass under trees in a park, with buildings and parked cars across the street in the background.

“All department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores”

— Andy Warhol

An airplane flying above a highway with a rainbow in a cloudy sky.

“No matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.”

— Minor White

Street view with a white brick building, three trees (two with green leaves and one without leaves), power lines, a no parking sign, and a yellow truck partially visible on the left.

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

— E.O. Wilson, Biologist/Naturalist

View of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific under a clear blue sky, with a hand holding 3D blue glasses in the foreground, overlooking the historic structure and people relaxing on the grass.

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

An old, three-story stone house with a front porch, surrounded by leafless trees and parked cars, during late afternoon or early evening.

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Red brick apartment building courtyard with grass, paved walkway, and metal fence in foreground.

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can achieve excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

Side view of a two-story house with gray siding, three windows on the lower level, one window on the upper level, and a small dormer window. Several birds are perched on the roof, and two birds are flying in front of the house.

“You don’t always get what you go after, but you do get what you wouldn’t have got if you hadn’t gone after what you didn’t get.”

— Blaze Foley

A tree with no leaves and thin branches against a dark blue evening sky, with a utility pole and power lines in the background.

“People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a ‘common purpose’. ‘Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they’re going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.”

— George Carlin

A utility pole with multiple power lines stretched across the sky, with houses with gabled roofs in the background under a cloudy sky.

“The only advice I have is that you do something connected to photography every day of your life and you’ll be surprised what happens.”

— Richard Avedon