I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.