"When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too."

--

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Derek Ridgers

#Eye Quotes #August Quotes #People Quotes

“"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.”
“I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~”
“I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.”
“I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.”
“So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.”
“I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.”
“The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.”

You may also like:

Adam Ant
Musician
Boy George
Singer-songwriter
Helen Mirren
Actor
John Lydon
Singer-songwriter
Katharine Hamnett
Fashion designer
Malcolm Mclaren
Musician
Marilyn
Singer-songwriter
Siouxsie Sioux
Singer-songwriter
Ari Up
Vocalist