Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Utopia means elsewhere.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

If there is no war in Paradise, how can there be any delights there?

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.