Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
—Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 34
Wuthering Heights. Andrea Arnold, 2011.
Man does not want to look at man’s pain, unless it is his own.
—Raymond Depardon
La vie moderne/Modern Life by Raymond Depardon
If your pictures aren’t good enough, it’s because you’re not close enough.
—Tim Hetherington quoting Robert Capa
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington
The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word, where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients and staff work together in rehearsals and preparations for their annual summer play. This year, they perform the modernist, absurdist classic, “Operette,” by Witold Gombrowicz, whose dialogue is more nonsensical than that of the patients themselves.
—Unknown
La Moindre des Choses, Nicolas Philibert
You can either surf, or you can fight!
—Colonel Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
Colonel Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
