Frank Hendriks Photography: It was a “pointless” action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this.
Frank Hendriks Photography: It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Frank Hendriks Photography: I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...
Frank Hendriks Photography: Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Frank Hendriks Photography: There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Frank Hendriks Photography: It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Frank Hendriks Photography: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Screw the city council
Frank Hendriks Photography: Many a work of art is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Happiness is a prison. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Frank Hendriks Photography: For just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun.
Frank Hendriks Photography: There are a lot of places I like, but I like Zaandam better. There's a thousand different angles at any moment.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice. And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.'
Frank Hendriks Photography: It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.