Hiroshi Hamaya quotes

“I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.”
-- Hiroshi Hamaya

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“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.”
-- Hiroshi Hamaya

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“For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger project. It was as if I were carried along by a stream - even though I believed that the current was taking me in the right direction.”
-- Hiroshi Hamaya

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“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”

“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”

“There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.”

“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“You are the universe experiencing itself.”

“The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.”

Source : Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”