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Kafka distinguishes two series of technical inventions: those that tend to restore natural communication by triumphing over distances and bringing people together (the train, the car, the airplane), and those that represent the vampirish revenge of the phantom where there is reintroduced ‘the ghostly element between people’ (the post, the telegraph, the telephone, wireless telegraphy).
– Gilles Deleuze -
It is a difficult balance one has to keep between the creation of situations to go through and the development of a narrative technique to share one’s perspective. In this process, life overcomes art at some point, and art perverts life.
– Antoine D’Agata -
In fashion, the more a model acts like a model, the less successful the pictures are for me. And it’s kind of the same with the hustlers and the pole dancers: the more self-conscious they are and try to give me what they think I want, the less interesting it is. The way I work is to decide that something is interesting and figure out how to make an image of it.
– Philip-Lorca diCorcia -
Whether they are photographs involving a great deal of preconception or not, I think there is something in the way that I try to do it that does involve things that I don’t even understand. There are aspects to it that I know have some meaning; they have sublimated intentions and hidden motivations. That’s where the photographer’s personality comes in, if you’re the kind of person who sublimates things, that’s how it comes out in your work.
– Philip-Lorca diCorcia -
(Taken with instagram at Under the Williamsburg Bridge)
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I don’t invent characters. I invite strangers. Out of my subconscious. Then cut them slack, to see what they’ll do.
– GreatDismal aka William Gibson -
For me, the promise of independent film is the ability to experiment. Because the money is independent. And so the fact that you can do that is extremely exciting. I think the best way to get recognition is to do something out there, to push the edges. Unless you hit it—and do something really traditional really well, it’s going to be nothing. Because you’re not going to compete with everything else that’s out there and has movie stars and is done technically better. So unless you think you can really nail that traditional style or that’s just your style, I would encourage filmmakers to fucking break down walls, break down rules and make the film their own.
– Darren Aronofsky -
I’m interested in commerce. The excuse for bigness is that songs demand to be heard if they’re any good. And without the kind of momentum of being in a big rock ‘n’ roll band, you won’t get your songs heard.
– Bono -
Edward Albee
The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat—of self-critical heat when I’m actually writing. In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play is a great deal more alive for me than what passes for reality. I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
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I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of the car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multi-storey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.
– J.G. Ballard -
Slipstream
A slipstream world, or story, cannot be figured out. Moreover, this is not due to any incapacity on the part of the protagonist but because (it seems) we have forgotten how to do the figuring out.
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I rather shun this getting cleared out and, with my nature, could hardly expect anything good of it. Something like a disinfected soul results from it, a monstrosity, alive, corrected in red like the page of a school notebook.
– Rilke (on psychoanalysis) -
I believe that as soon as an artist has found the living center of his activity, nothing is so important for him as to remain in it and never go further away from it (for it is also the center of his personality, his world) than up to the inside wall of what he is quietly and steadily giving forth; his place is never, not even for an instant, alongside the observer and judge.
– Rainer Maria Rilke -
As I began work on Mirror, I found myself reflecting more and more that if you are serious about your work, then a film is not merely the next item in your career, it is an action which will affect the whole of your life. For I had made up my mind that in this film, for the first time, I would use the means of cinema to talk of all that was most precious to me, and do so directly, without playing any kind of tricks.
– Tarkovski -
Art is that human activity which consists in one man’s consciously conveying to others, by certain external signs, the feelings he has experienced, and in others being infected by those feelings and also experiencing them.
– Leo Tolstoy
