Take This Heart of Mine

Take This Heart of Mine

Living with father was something like living with a king, a very peculiar, changeable, cruel and all-powerful king. You were supposed to tip-toe around his moods. You were supposed to do anything to win his favor. I never did. Even though winning his love was the ultimate goal of my childhood, I defied him. I hated his attitude. I thought I could win his love through singing, so I sang my heart out. But the better I became, the greater his demands.


- Marvin Gaye

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It's marvellous, marvellous!

It's marvellous, marvellous!

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
 

- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

- Yves Saint Laurent

Photograph by Irving Penn, 1983

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I Ka Nyi' Tan' - Now don't move

I Ka Nyi' Tan' - Now don't move

"Girls on Bike" by Seydou Keita, Photographer

Bicycles, mopeds, cars, the props went from small to medium to large. Vespas were average but a car was luxury. And it didn't just stop at one he had lots, so people thought he was well-off and for the time he was.

- Lancina Keita, brother of Seydou Keita

 

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I do not seek. I find.

I do not seek. I find.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

- Pablo Picasso

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Dogs never bite. Just humans.

Dogs never bite. Just humans.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.



- Marilyn Monroe

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You will never be perfect

You will never be perfect

"He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold on to him and give him the most you can. He isn't going to quote poetry, he's not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect more than he can give. Don't analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he's not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy that is perfect for you."


- Bob Marley

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This is my symphony

This is my symphony

"...this is my symphony" by William Henry Channing

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You were such a babe!

You were such a babe!

Awesome shot of a young Aretha Franklin with her older sister, Erma Franklin in 1963.


"...the moment I wake up, before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.."

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Excuse me while I kiss the sky

Excuse me while I kiss the sky

“I didn’t ask Jimi to smile, he just naturally was quite smiley, and we laughed quite a lot at the session. That was the first session in ’67, and funnily enough most young men in music, young musicians, want to look mean, moody and sexy.”

- Gered Mankowitz (Photographer)

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