“There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one’s character, one’s […]
“All unknowns… at first, at least, to me, until I, like Columbus, “discovered” them. Is voyeurism a form of imperialism?”
Ann Rower, Lee and Elaine
REAR WINDOW (Hitchcock 1954)
“There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they chose him and is usually too busy to wonder why.”
Roman Polanski
William Faulkner
“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
Anatole France
“Trash has given us an appetite for art.”
Pauline Kael
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Terry Pratchett
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
Randy Pausch The Last Lecture (p. 148)
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
Franz Kafka
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