“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
– Haruki Murakami (via quotemadness)
“It is a profound hunger. The hunger to make the image. And the hunger to take in the image and to make sense of it. The hunger to pattern the world. That’s what I love about photography. It works as a call and response. The audience matters, but only when you work, and the only audience that matters when you work is the one that is in your head. The call is the stuff you look on and the response is the poetry to which it gives rise, and the two are wed in the way you begin, hopefully, to capture how you feel about the world.”
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Richard Rothman
http://theconversant.org/?p=1276(via patrickjoust)
Miyako Ishiuchi - “Yokosuka Story #5”
Black women really are something else.
Phil Stern, Rita Moreno During a Rehearsal for “West Side Story”, 1961
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. […] I have much to live for, yet unaccountably I am sick and sad.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.”
– Carl Jung (via fyp-psychology)
“People who insist upon clarity and logic often fail in making themselves understood. They are always-searching for a more perfect transmitter, deluded by the supposition that the mind is the only instrument for the exchange of thought.”
– Henry Miller, Sexus (via jrmgh)
“In essence, when you practice and develop any skill you transform yourself in the process. You reveal to yourself new capabilities that were previously latent, that are exposed as you progress. You develop emotionally. Your sense of pleasure becomes redefined. What offers immediate pleasure comes to seem like a distraction, an empty entertainment to help pass the time. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.”
– Robert Greene, Mastery (via jrmgh)