. . . perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries and hopes to be uplifted by the mountains of Switzerland, the sky and sea of Italy. He comes to them and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches
I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid