We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
—John Lennon (via claytoncubitt)
The best thing for me to do is forget about my need for inspiration and go out and live a little more. Get uncomfortable. Live some other art. Travel. Walk the earth and get into adventures. I believe pretty strongly that this sort of thing comes from deep inside. So it requires some shake-up. Ironically, for me, getting inspired is ultimately about forgetting about looking for inspiration, because in that mode, you’re always judging. And when you’re judging, you’re not nearly as open to some inspiration that might crack you upside the head. Escape and engage.
—Chase Jarvis
Working on it. I’ve got at least two of these under my belt already this year; not a bad start.
(Source: silent-musings)
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
—Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), The Portable Atheist
Asking about or praising a photographer for what equipment he uses is like asking and praising a cook for what pots and pans he uses.
As [a model] once put it to me: “In glamour, the pose says ‘I want you to f**k me.’ In fashion, the pose says ‘I want you to f**k off.’
—Simon Walden
Before allowing yourself to become mired in the social blunder du jour, remind yourself that there is still an incredible world available to you that is slowly disappearing; that you have the privilege of choosing a life of adventure, achievement and satisfaction despite the pettiness and greed of others; that you are an individual human being in a place full of beauty far greater than the miasmal cauldrons of over-crowded cities, corrupt politics, social injustices and mindless entertainment. Get out there and claim your gift before it is no longer available. Be the 0.000000014%.
‘The opposite of courage is not cowardice, its conformity.’
—(via bebopajulia)
(Source: juliaclinton)
I’ve never been in a studio, ever, with no material and just gone in and said “Oh, I’ve got this idea.”
To go in a studio and set the amps up and just… “Yeah man, we just went in and just fuckin’ played, you know, whatever…” That’s not art. To me, that’s not art, that’s just fuckin’ about.
To me, art is writing it and re-writing it. To get from a point of playing the first chord to listening to it at the end there’s got to be some kind of emotional journey between you and the song. It can’t just be, like, fuckin’… a thousand percent inspiration. It doesn’t work like that for me.
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Noel Gallagher, “It’s Never Too Late to Be What U Might Have Been - The Making of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds”
What’s interesting is that the more I shoot for myself, the more I realise that this is exactly the approach I take to get some of my favourite photos.
i made a thing.
