Joel Meyerowitz on Reflection:
Reflection; the act of, not the image of, is a way of reconsidering where we are in relation to reality. Reflecting pools have for a long time been places where one could contemplate the difference between the illusion and the real.via On Reflection by Joel Meyerowitz.
Every time you take a picture, you’re saying yes to what you see.From an Interview (*) with Olivia Bee (*).
There should be a degree of consciousness about who you are in the world at that moment, a kind of integrated consciousness.
It’s not blind luck, so if one can find what it is that makes you conscious, what gives you the pleasure of being alive at that moment, I feel that is what leads you to your own identity.
Because in the long run, your individual identity will be revealed by the strength of the photographs you make in one year, ten years, 15 years—there’s a string.
They’re like little jewels on the string and they carry all the messages that you were excited by when the world spoke to you.
we’re so used to wanting everything easy, we forget the real value of hard [trying]. We’re so used to caring about the result, we forget the value of the process. Feeling good is more valuable than being good.From Learning to learn (*) by Spencer Lum (*)
