But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.