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I'm a big Whole Foods fan.
I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.
I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.
Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.
Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.
I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.
It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.
I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.
Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.
Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will cheer me up, lift my body and take an outfit up five levels. Plus, shoes are easy to carry and fun to collect.
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.
I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of endeavor where I could meet people but still blow people's minds with a very inspiring point of view. So, a shoe store.
I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.
An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.