Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Steven Pinker
‘Photography is a kind of virtual reality’
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Nassim Taleb: ‘The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations.’
“The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations.”
Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
‘I think it’s important in creativity to understand the value of hesitation’
“I think it’s important in creativity to understand the value of hesitation, to not be in a rush, to pull back and pause — not because you’re blocked, not because you don’t know what to do, but just to let things enrich themselves.”
John Berger: ‘You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events’
‘You break experience up into pieces…’
“You break experience up into pieces and you put them together in different combinations, and some are real and some are not, some are documentary, and some are imagined…It takes a pedestrian and literal mind to be worried about which is true and which is not true. It’s all of it not true, and it’s all of it true.”
— Author Walter Stegner in an interview with Richard Etulain
Fact or fiction, our lives are but are an amalgamation of experience and imagination, neither of which explains the factual nature of our origins. Context fence-sits to prove no foreseeable answer, one that needs no seeking anyway.
The above quote is lifted from the afterword in Wallace Stegner’s novel Crossing to Safety, a highly recommended read.
