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New Seeds of Contemplation
"There can be an intense egoism in following everybody else. People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular-and too lazy to think of anything better. Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such haste to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity."
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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8/18/14
“For me, process alone almost never makes a good or interesting photograph. Process is not enough. [...] A good photograph is a good photograph in such a way that the process itself might be an integral part of it, but it’s not the focal point. In other words, the moment you can almost separate out the image from the process [...] you’re in trouble: Suddenly, the process itself becomes part of what is being evaluated.”
JM Colberg
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/on_process/
JM Colberg
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/on_process/
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8/10/14
“ In the right light, I will cast a shadow, and in having a shadow I will also have an outline that can indicate my "abstract" presence, like a corpse that the police have walked and talked and chalked around and taken off to coronate. This silhouette from which my "shape" will be taken, like my elongating or retreating shade upon a sunny lawn, won't be called "an abstraction," however; it will merely be my silhouette or shadow.”
Excerpt From: William H. Gass & Michael Eastman. “Abstractions Arrive.”
Excerpt From: William H. Gass & Michael Eastman. “Abstractions Arrive.”
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7/9/14
...more than food
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
—Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel
6/29/14
6/27/14
My photography at its purest is about response, about visual exploration, about discovery.
On one level, if I knew what it was I wanted in advance, I'm not sure I would chose
photography as a medium. Part of what excites me about photography is its very
uncertainty, the fact that it is not just the photographer, but the vagaries of the world that result in the photograph. If I had a greater inkling of just what I wanted in advance, why not choose a medium where there is much greater imaginative control, like painting?
Alex Webb
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6/21/14
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.”
~ William S. Burroughs, quoted in interview, The Paris Review (Fall 1965)
6/16/14
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