Jordan Wolfson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.
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I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.
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The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.
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I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
-- Jordan Wolfson
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Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
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From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
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I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
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