Ray Man

“I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.”

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

“Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

 

“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.” 

 

“The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.”

Man Ray

A Mammal's Notebook

“The dandy cleans his monocle every day, a silver monocle with a lens of smoked gold, given him by a beautiful lady but, suddenly overcome with sadness, he has lost the monocle case.”

“I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.”

Erik Satie

Sunday's Manifesto

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”

 

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

“Moments are the elements of profit”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”

Karl Marx

The Songlines

 

“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.

The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”

“in becoming human, man had acquired, together with his straight legs and striding walk, a migratory ‘drive’ or instinct to walk long distances through the seasons;

 

that this ‘drive’ was inseparable from his central nervous system; and that, when warped in conditions of settlement, it found outlets in violence, greed, status-seeking or a mania for the new.

This” 

 

Bruce Chatwin