"If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning"

-- Ruth Bernhard

#Photography Quotes #Not Interested Quotes

“My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in Upright Citizens Brigade, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds really cool." So when I got braces and couldn't play music anymore, I said to my parents that I wanted to go to New York and take a class at that place. They were remarkably on board with it. I got on the train, went up, took a class and I loved it.”
“Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.”
“I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.”
“Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.”

Source : "Completing my new show was the only thing that saved me from suicide" by Hermione Eyre, The Independent, July 15, 2007.
“Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.”

Source : "Life of Lord Kelvin". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.
“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.”
“When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.”
“One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...”

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