October 2010
57 posts
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing...”
– Francis Bacon
“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”
– Tom Waits
“People want to find a “meaning” in everything & everyone....”
– Picasso
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Picasso
“I do the same thing every day. I go to work & paint. I try to turn out as...”
– Warhol
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
– Jackson Pollock
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa
“It often seems to me that the night is much more alive & richly colored than...”
– van Gogh
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
“Resist much. Obey little.”
– Walt Whitman
“Art is making something out of nothing, & selling it.”
– Frank Zappa
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.”
– Tom Waits
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability...”
– Stanley Kubrick
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
– Jessamyn West
“The eye altering, alters all.”
– William Blake
“Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.”
– Dennis Gunton
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
– Jean-Luc Picard
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
– Lewis Carroll
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
– Joseph Joubert
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
– Tuli Kupferberg
“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every...”
– Gauguin
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.”
– William Blake
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
– Picasso
“Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.”
– Chagall
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
– William Blake
“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
– George Scialabba
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen & thinking what nobody...”
– Albert Szent-Györgyi
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
– Novalis
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
– Charles Baudelaire
“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“I am a professional photographer by trade & an amateur photographer by...”
– Elliot Erwitt
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality. One can’t possess reality,...”
– Susan Sontag
“Schon seit der Erfindung der Fotografie wird um deren Echtheit gestritten, weil...”
– Henning Sussebach
“The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have...”
– Gregory Colbert
“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in...”
– Groucho Marx
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– Vonnegut
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...”
– da Vinci
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.”
– Mark Twain
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like...”
– Edward Weston
“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
– Ansel Adams
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
– Susan Sontag
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
– William Blake
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
– Mary Oliver
“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important...”
– DFW
“Photographier: c’est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête,...”
– Cartier-Bresson
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
– Eudora Welty