Shop by Toby Deveson
– West of the Sun –
Black & White analogue photography
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
“Happiness achieved, I walk.
(Felicità raggiunta, si cammina)”
Mario Giacomelli
“You cannot travel on the path
before you have become the path itself.”
Gautama Buddha from The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
“Holding a head whose skull I gnawed...I gazed upon the
countryside, the sea; gazed upon sun and firmament.”
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
“You road that I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here. I believe that much unseen is also here.”
Walt Whitman
“Listen,
the snow is falling.”
Listen the Snow is Falling by Yoko Ono
“The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Don't you know there ain't no devil,
there's just god when he's drunk.”
Heart Attack and Vine by Tom Waits
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere,
so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”
Jeanette Winterson
“Images of broken light which dance before me like a million
eyes that call me on and on across the universe.”
Across the Universe by The Beatles
“And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity
that makes you responsible for what you do. ”
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
“I am the son of the road, my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages.”
Amin Maalouf
“The only people who see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step outside the frame.”
The Ground Beneath her Feet by Salman Rushdie
“I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways.”
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
“Yes, I feel that my soul is bolted into my body and cannot free itself to flee from beaches beaten by the human sea.”
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
“All the world is made of faith,
and trust, and pixie dust.”
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
“The curious are always in some danger.
If you are curious you might never come home.”
Jeanette Winterson
“If I go insane, please don't put
Your wires in my brain.”
If by Pink Floyd
“You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
“Photography is not documentary,
but intuition, a poetic experience.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“My head is full, mamma.
(Ho la testa piena, mamma)”
Mario Giacomelli
“Let us live for the
beauty of our own reality.”
Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins
“reality leaves
a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon
“When you stop inventing reality
then you see things as they really are.”
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
“We only see starlight because
all the stars are bleeding.”
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
“...and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to touch your hair.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
Kahlil Gibran