Geoff Hamilton quotes

“Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.”
-- Geoff Hamilton

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“Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.”
-- Geoff Hamilton

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“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin

“Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.”

“And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”

“Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.”

Source : "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 06, 2014.

“On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.”