We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history. -- Chris Marker
#Art Quotes #Levels Quotes #Personal History Quotes
“There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.”
“There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.”
“I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.”
“It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.”
“Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.”
“Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.”
Source : Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.19, Macmillan
“I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.”
“Everything disturbs an absent lover.”
“We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.”
“I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.”
