When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.
Your image is your currency in this world.
I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.
Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts. ’
My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now. . . I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.