W. M. L. Jay Quotes

Allow yourself to lose your way.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

You cannot accurately remember color.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

In the world of fashion, nothing is ever comfortable.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

There aren't many shy writers left.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

Great minds sink alike, right?

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

It's the cynics who never get married.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.