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Sitting around

January 30, 2026 Paul Politis 0

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for […]

“You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”

Not cute and lovable (2 photos)
“For me a picture must always be something lovable, pleasurable and pretty, yes, something pretty. There are enough unpleasant things in the world; we do [...]
Bicycle and flower
Fulcrum
Existence of the other
“Attention changes the world. How you attend to it changes what it is you find there. What you find then governs the kind of attention [...]
Mood
“To see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognise it as a photographic possibility – that’s what I’m interested in.” — Stephen Shore
Momentary blaze
“A poem can leave its maker at once more deeply seized by existence and, in a profound way, alienated from it, for as the act [...]
Exhibition
Make the day rise brightly
A Prayer That Will Be Answered Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even [...]
In the wild
Squirrel geometry
“You will learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the [...]