"The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience."

-- Paul Fussell

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.”
“I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede heels on that I coveted. And that they're invested in their jobs the same way you and I might be. We think of them as doing these jobs that we could never imagine doing, but their relationship to what they do is the same as our relationship to what we do.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
“No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.”
“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.”
“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

Source : Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”
“What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.”
“But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.”
“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.”

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