"Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color."

-- Alex Webb

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“... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.”
“The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible. I donâ€™t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.”
“The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.”
“I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.”
“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”
“It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.”
“A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.”
“The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master Of The Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

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