Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”
– Walt Whitman
Category: Epigraph
“I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:13
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
Huxley’s words from 1932 are truer now than when he wrote it. His novel Brave New World deserves a re-read.
”Intellectuals pride themselves on their intelligence but they’d be more intelligent if they prided themselves on their curiosity.” – Gurwinder
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything has to be said again.
“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can.”
– Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
“We don’t know enough about ourselves. I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that’s why so many people are so lost.”
– James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
[I]n order to write a book, do a deed, paint a picture with some life in it, one has to be alive oneself. And so, unless you never want to progress, study is a matter of very secondary importance for you. Enjoy yourself as much as you can, have as many diversions as you can, and remember that what people demand in art nowadays is something very much alive, with strong colour and great intensity. So intensify your own health and strength and life a little; that is the best study.
Vincent Van Gogh
“We’re all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That’s why we’re photographers. We’re preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible.
People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won’t be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived.”
Ben Ryder, Kodachrome