Quote of the Day – November 9 2015
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
Ansel Adams
Quote of the Day – November 8 2015
“The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”
Helmut Newton
What I’m reading… ‘The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images’
“When the soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
Quote of the Day – November 7 2015
“We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are”
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin did employ this statement in her 1961 work “Seduction of the Minotaur”.
When Nin wrote the adage she did not take credit for the notion. Instead, she pointed to a major […]
What I’m reading… ‘Man and His Symbols’ by Carl Jung
Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Symbols-Carl-Gustav-Jung/dp/0440351839
I wonder why I am revisiting this work after watching Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ?
Quote of the Day – November 6 2015
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
John Updike
Chanel
Quote of the Day – November 5 2015
“I think if you’re too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can’t really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.”
Michael Schur, American producer
Maybe I should turn down the music in my studio…
Easily Distracted By Noise? You Might Just Be A Creative Genius.
What did Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcel Proust all have in common? Besides being creative geniuses, they shared an odd quirk: The luminaries were abnormally sensitive to noise, and often required solitude to work.
Proust, for instance, rarely left his one-bedroom apartment in […]
Quote of the Day – November 4 2015
“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening