Category: thoughts

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Jonas Mekas

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Alexey Brodovitch

Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.

Lewis Baltz

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Andy Warhol

With a camera like that you don’t believe you’re in the masterpiece business. It’s enough to be able to peck at the world.

Lee Friedlander

A photographer’s main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski