I photograph subjects that have a mystical power to me. In that sense, every click of the shutter is an act of worship. – Clayton Cubitt
quotes
Better off
Mo quoted last night, “Everyone is experiencing the worst thing in the history of the world.” …Until you talk to someone else and find out what their worst thing is.
mess it up
You’re going to mess up sometimes. But the good part is, you get to decide how you’re gonna mess it up. — Marilyn Monroe
Unexpected intrusions of beauty
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is. ? Saul Bellow
New Year
It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you want. You have nothing to lose. And everything to gain. Clayton Cubitt
Advice on Life
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. — Kurt Continue Reading
More Random Quotes
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels. – Groucho Marx Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde (via Clayton Cubitt) Acknowledge that you are worthy of receiving something so that love becomes authentically mutual and reciprocal. – Cornel West (via Continue Reading
Quotes and Pretty Girls
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson (via holly) If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them. – John Waters
Design is
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs (via Kelowna)
Essentials for Happiness
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love & something to hope for. – J. Addison (via Holly)
Artist and Audience
To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket, then it is a straightjacket. – Clayton Cubitt
to all the devils…
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. – Patricia Highsmith, New Years Eve, 1947
Heart and Mind
If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders. – via Holly Seems very fitting right now. *shrug*
Quotes
Sometimes girls go gay when drunk. Sometimes gays go girl when drunk. – Clayton Cubitt Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain, via (Dave T)
defeated
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Unknown (via Paul Long)
Valkyrie
“She was one of those giant broad beamed Scandinavian giantess warrior women types; the fucking Russ Meyer buxotic women, you know what I mean: WOMEN with breasts and hips like we don’t have anymore. Oh my god what was that horrible- what is this god awful frightened 14 year old Continue Reading
be remarkable
Better to be ridiculous and make an impact, than to be polite and unremarkable. – me
Product
If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being sold. – Andrew Lewis (via Daring Fireball)
assurance and inexpressible delight
Let the philosophers rave on about the summum bonum and mystics about embracing God. They are still vertical humans and therefore even their adorations still have something aggressive about them. Humans in the horizontal position have always struck me as less likely to be violent and destructive. So I take Continue Reading
Curiosity
I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein, (via Holly)