“The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“S___ likes being around other people; she just isn't particularly comfortable talking to them. She supposes that she is some variety of voyeur, enjoying… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“I have an affection for those transitional seasons, the way they take the edge off the intense cold of winter, or heat of summer.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“…that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“Julius explained that the palace rooms where they stood were called Wunderkammers, or wonder rooms. Souvenirs of nature, of travels across continents and seas;… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“...but she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, "Photography… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“Money buys things that people with money never even realize they’ve bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
