Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.