“In their faces–plenty of them were handsome, but ruined–I’ve seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
― Richard Ford, Canada
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
― Oscar Wilde
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
Huffhines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.
It’s furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older – our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Huffines Park,
Richardson, Texas
“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Painted Parking Meter
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“Harvey wasn’t interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they’d been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
Bishop Arts Mardi Gras Parade, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
Laissez les bons temps rouler
The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.
She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.
We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she’d have
if she ever wore glasses.
It’s great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.
—- Tim Burton
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—-Marcel Proust
I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
—-Anna Held
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
—-William Blake
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
—-Victor Hugo
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
—-Charles Caleb Colton
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
—-William Butler Yeats
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
—-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
—-Arthur Schopenhauer
So if you’re down on your luck, I know you all sympathize
Find a girl with far away eyes
And if you’re downright disgusted
And life ain’t worth a dime
Get a girl with far away eyes
—-Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Bill Chance 