Trust me. I’m telling you stories. — Jeannette Winterson
Tag: quotes
february helplessness blues
“I guess it is like an archaeologist, where you’re always wanting to find something you’ve never heard before. And people now are, even at a young age, they’re looking back into the past and trying to make connections. They’re trying to connect ’60s Pakistani pop music to punk rock in Washington, DC in the ’90s….
enough
Rock ‘n’ roll did not need a museum. The fact that it existed was enough. — Dave Thompson writing on Patti Smith in Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story
a little of both
Maybe they aren’t artists, maybe they’re just assholes. — Heather Havrilesky, Disaster Preparedness
everything is illuminated (and an accident)
This is how it goes. You thrash around, then you meet people, and maybe you wind up becoming friends. You just don’t know where it goes. But I believe you’ve got to be out there thrashing around, creating ways for yourself. — Ken Markus
manic creativity
Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you’re just really miserable. — Florence Welch
rock and roll matters
“Rock ‘n’ roll matters because it is the story of growing up. Arguably, rock ‘n’ roll is the reason American culture contains the myth of adolescence. In the fifties this allegory was acted out almost literally as rock’s emergence crucially split adolescents from their parents. Loving something your parents couldn’t understand was the first way…
good vs great
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. — Ansel Adams
a woman
If a woman wants to be a war photographer, she should. It’s important. Women offer a different perspective. We have access to women on a different level than men have, just as male photographers have a different relationship with the men they’re covering.In the Muslim world, most of my male colleagues can’t enter private homes….
joke’s on me
I’m not sure if all creative people struggle with this, I suspect not, but sometimes I have a difficult time taking myself seriously. As seriously as maybe I should. I really like taking pictures. I like being in the moment, doing it. I like exploring it, I like looking at the pictures. I don’t like…
brand new kind of photography 