1
The biggest problems in my psyche, women (they either don’t love me or they love me too much), my father (he doesn’t know how to show me that he loves me), and my ambition (the love isn’t reciprocal). How very unique!
2
Art is built on the mundane foundation of discipline. The discipline to go out and work when you’re sick. When it’s raining. The discipline of skipping a party. Of saying no to pussy. And the toughest: the discipline of working when you’re bored of it.
3
Study sado-masochistic erotica. Watch their faces. When you’re working, make yours and your subjects faces, like theirs.
4
Start working before you know what you’re working on.
5
There’s something deeply unsatisfying about being just a consumer. It feels like you’re doing something but you really aren’t.
6
What disturbs me most about myself is I think about my career as a photographer more than what I want to photograph. The only saving grace is that I don’t dream about cameras.
7
Both you and the critic are fighting for space in the work. Leave the cunt only enough room to breathe. No more, no less. Boring artists give up everything, bad artists give up nothing.
8
That all is relative, is a simple, childish observation. Maturity is creating and coming to believe in necessary lies to overcome relativity. Of course, maturity is not necessary. And if you are going to be childish, at least play once in while.
9
Going to school to learn if you like something is impossible. What they teach you is not the same as the thing itself. If you must go to school, go do something you already like; something where you already know everything. Go and do something in which you cannot be hurt.
10
Tension in a photograph is really about expectation. Something is about to happen. Of course it never does, so the tension is always jarringly imminent. Or the action has just happened. Now the tension is in waiting for an explanation. But there never is one.
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It’s easier to take an interesting picture in the dark because then you can’t see anything. It’s harder to fuck it up.
Posted 2 years ago
