quotes
Ill-designed world
“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of […]
Zig zag wanderer
“When I work, no moment stands out as of any greater importance than any other moment. With each frame there is hope, but at no […]
Going home
“I don’t know the meaning of this journey I was forced to make, between one and another night, in the company of the whole universe… […]
Making pictures
“…To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making […]
In arbitrary space
“The only attitude worthy of a superior man is to persist in an activity he recognizes is useless, to observe a discipline he knows is […]
Winter scene
Reading Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse. “He did not think about it, he deadened his thoughts with constant work. His feeling was: you can go at […]
In the world
“It’s a pleasure for me. The process of photographing. Being physically in the world, eyes open, attentive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. To be […]
Geometry of the abyss
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I’m nobody, nobody. I don’t know how to feel or […]
Urban scrawl
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel
Under construction
“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it […]
A crack in everything
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life […]
The photographer
“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]