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“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.”
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“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”
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“Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.”
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“Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.”
Source : Josiah Royce (1911). “William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life”
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“The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,”
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“Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.”
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“None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.”
Source : Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press
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“Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.”
