"So we’re in rags? Then let us show our rags to the world. So we’re defeated? Then let us contemplate our disasters. So we owe them to the Mafia? To hypocrisy? To conformism? To irresponsibility? To faulty education? Then let us pay all our debts with a fierce love of honesty, and the world will be moved to participate in this great combat with truth."
Alberto Lattuada
"Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased…Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little."
Italo Calvino
"Oh! Another day tucked away and here we are tired and honest and in love and happy as two peas in a pod, two peas in a pod! isn’t that silly? peas don’t come in pairs!"
Paul Harding
Photo Assignment 1:
When I arrived in Florence, I felt overwhelmed by the ever-present stone which dominated my perception of the city. However, by shifting my gaze upward and creating my own solitude, I was comforted. I remembered that centuries-old buildings and statues have limits, but that the sky is endless.
"When the human being is full of courage and full of life, how beautiful it is!"
D.H. Lawrence
"Truly the whole world is open before us, everything waiting to be done."
Picasso
