Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, Continue Reading
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and Continue Reading
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ― Arthur C. Clarke
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist… – Clayton Cubitt I have to agree with this. It’s not to say that you shouldn’t want to be good. But it shouldn’t be the ‘why’ of you doing something. I see Continue Reading
My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be here as Google Plus fades. When Medium and Tumblr are gone, my blog will be here. Continue Reading
Art is why you do something. Craft is how you do something. – Clayton Cubitt
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. – Molière
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
“هناك مجنون، ثم هناك مجنون الأمريكية. أنت، يا صديقي، هي مجنون الأمريكية.” (“There is crazy, and then there is American Crazy. You, my friend, are American Crazy.”) — Stolen from Higgins.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso (vía Holly)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of Continue Reading
You’re wasting your time letting someone else decide if your story is worthy of being told. – Susannah Breslin
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. – Kurt Vonnegut
“A man has always wanted to lay me down, but never wanted to pick me up.” — Eartha Kitt.
“What do you do when (if) you ever feel like giving up?” – theaudacityofswope There is no such goddamn thing. There is only getting up and doing it all over again, smarter and harder, until something ups and fucking kills you, because that’s the only thing big enough to stop Continue Reading
You have to shut off all of those voices and look for these special moments—these moments that you accept you have no control over. So much of my job is to not think—to be open to what’s there, and then use my intuition to see where it takes me. – Continue Reading
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. – Ansel Adams These are the two basic controls at the photographer’s command: Continue Reading
When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I’m human. It’s the same thing when I’m behind a camera. I forget I exist. — Robert Mapplethorpe
Be tender with adults, they’re just disillusioned children. — Clayton Cubitt
