Scott Crary

"All lovers are runaways, are fugitives. Inheriting the entire world on that journey. Escaping to one another."

"There is no artistic worth in compromise, in a pair, in collaboration, in obedient unity. These are all impossible terms. Action must come from the individual. The group (even if just a population of two) is only capable of reaction."

"Patience is the only honest muse. In writing, in painting, and especially in photography."

"Any art should be advertising for ones soul."

"Photography is a hunt. But one that ends in the immortality of the prey, rather than the prey’s death."

"(William) Burroughs was all about the future. Was all about liberation through the dismantling of presiding orders. He was a big influence on punk culture and punk music (and me) for that reason."

"Film photography just makes such an ally of chance, and chance is essential to any valid art, to the poetic…to life, to the spiritual."

"Our story is not really ours until we tell it, until it belongs to others too."

"Nostalgia is an illness. A symptom of the dying, of those who have more life behind them than before them."

"(Lydia) Lunch and a lot of the no wave musicians were imbued with the wisdom—and neuroses—of genuine trauma. Theres the divine madness in them. When Suicides Alan Vega sneered, you might have actually found yourself bloodied shortly thereafter. You sure as hell wouldnt reach for your iPhone to Instagram and tag his #antics. Youd feel a little intruded upon, which is precisely how all the best art should make you feel."

"Love is never more than a faith, and that’s why it’s so exciting."

"This is not cinema harnessing life; this is life harnessing cinema. Not a film. An attempt at a film. The imperfect effort is ever present, mischievously decorating every frame. Reminding us: one never actually makes a film—one merely attempts to make a film. Reminding us: one never actually lives—one attempts to live."