quotes
Geometry of the abyss
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I’m nobody, nobody. I don’t know how to feel or […]
Urban scrawl
“There is the world, and then there is a photograph. A photograph is not the world, it’s a completely different thing.” — Henry Wessel
Under construction
“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it […]
A crack in everything
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life […]
The photographer
“There’s no new ideas in the world, there’s only new arrangements of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. That means re-examining. Life changes […]
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]
Degrees of separation
*** “To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you […]
Apparition
Detail: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are […]
For madmen only
“Do you think I can’t understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the […]
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
A revolutionary act
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at […]
Y Pues Nada
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]
