"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

-- Anatole France

#Art Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.”
“I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
“I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.25, Rodale
“There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.”
“No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.”
“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”
“I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.”
“If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story....”

Source : Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.21, UNM Press

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