#ted

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#ago #billboard #call #feeling #final

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#avid #chose #country #earn #first

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#because #challenge #colour #continue #explored

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#artist #became #berlin #born #british

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#by the time #full #great #helped #i

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instructed #only #society #solitude

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #had #me #otherwise #wanted

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#even #high-spirited #makes #mistakes #more