Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
Interpretation
Photography captures fleeting moments, creating a timeline of experiences.
This quote by Nobuyoshi Araki emphasizes the transient nature of moments captured through photography. It suggests that each photograph serves as a snapshot of time, and when accumulated, these images collectively represent the course of one's life, highlighting the importance of both individual memories and the broader narrative they create.
In practice
Using this quote in a photography exhibition to emphasize the power of capturing moments.
I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.
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