Quote of the Day – November 21 2015
“Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too.”
Andy Warhol
Quote of the Day – November 20 2015
“A strange thing has happened — while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say.
It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, […]
Quote of the Day – November 19 2015
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus. Veteran with a flag, N.Y.C. 1971
Quote of the Day – November 18 2015
Pic taken by me. An exercise in exposure. No pun intended!
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Gordon Willis
Quote of the Day – November 17 2015
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
Matsuo Bashō
Pic source: Joy Saint James. Writer. Adventuress.
Quote of the Day – November 16 2015
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
Joss Whedon
Quote of the Day – November 15 2015
“People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I’ve passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.’
Roman Polanski on François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Godard
Quote of the Day – November 14 2015
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Pic source: Alias Studio Sydney tumblr
Quote of the Day – November 14 2015
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames”
Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852) Irish Poet
Quote of the Day – November 13 2015
“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
Mason Cooley (1927 – 2002)
