“Our world is inherently chaotic, and we constantly strive to impose some structure on this chaos. Watching a play, a movie, or a TV show allows us to experience humanity through others, taking a break from our own responsibilities. In its best form, acting mirrors our lives, allowing us to see ourselves in the stories being told.”— Asher Grodman
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Only when I spent a year and a half writing a book, did I realise how long it takes you to do something to get a tangible result. It makes you respect money more when it comes from something you create, rather than just trading back and forth with someone else's cash.
— Jordan BelfortStock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street
I don't think it's money that corrupts people, I really don't. I think it's the idea that when you make money without having a tangible creation attached to that money, it has no value.
— Jordan BelfortStock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street
Images signify- mainly- something 'out there' in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
We scrutinise a photograph with a sense that we are scrutinising the actual objects themselves, although they are distanced from us in time and space.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
When we look at a photograph, knowing that it is a photograph, we have a distinctive kind of experience: a visual confrontation with remote but actual objects and events.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist,' i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— David BaileyPioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography
The best portraits happen when you strip away all the pretense, all the masks people wear, and you find that raw, honest moment. That's when magic happens.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
Photography has become the universal language. It doesn't matter what country you're from, what language you speak, we all understand images. That's what makes it so powerful and so dangerous.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
When you're behind a camera, you have this incredible power to freeze a moment in time. But with that power comes responsibility. You're not just taking a picture, you're creating a narrative, you're telling a story.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
I've always believed that everyone can look like a magazine cover star. It's not about being born beautiful, it's about finding that moment, that light, that expression that makes you shine.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
The camera doesn't lie, but the photographer does. And that's the beauty of it. Photography is about interpretation, it's about your point of view, it's about how you see the world.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
I think the democratisation of the image is probably one of the most important things that's happening right now. Everyone's a photographer now, everyone's got a camera, everyone's taking pictures. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean we have to be more critical about what we're looking at.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work
If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
I don't care about legacy, it's an old idea because we don't consume time like we did before. Time is now simultaneous – before, it was linear. Today it is a wall in front of us. When time is a wall, there is no place for legacy.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Life is just receiving a rope from your parents. A rope of a certain quality, with a certain diameter and of a certain material. Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design