Theme 60: Death

O Luto é um processo de adaptação.

"A desk is a dangerous place to view the world..."

Any time that little internal monologue comes into your head telling you that you can’t do something, say to yourself, ‘I’m going to die someday.’ And see if that changes anything.

The most positive force in my life is looking at death. It’s increased my gratitude for my loved ones. It’s allowed me to live with so much less fear.

Fear less, live more. We’re all going to die anyway, right?

Díky smrti si člověk může uvědomit podstatu života.

I love what I do because of the way it connects me to others and to the world.

There are rare times when you reach a decision straight from the heart, without analyzing things, and these are the times when you begin to live your truth.

Finding a job I loved was the difference between truly, truly living my life, or just waiting to die.

I believe enough in myself to make it through.

We can change our perspective.

Perfection is crippling.

A lot of times, we put expectations on ourselves that are bigger than what other people expect from us.

When we own our dreams, we owe it to ourselves to push through those nerves and that anxiety to get to the other side.

We can never truly eliminate it [fear]. It always shows up, and we always have to figure out how to conquer it at each moment. Every time we do something new, it comes up in a different way.

What beliefs are you willing to put to death?

We all share the same need of belonging, approval and knowing that our lives, as individuals, matter.

What roles do you play?

The underlying fear of not being enough makes us desperate, controlling and exhausted.

I created numerous personalities because I was so afraid of being rejected. And, in the process, I forgot who I really was underneath my masks. But deep down, I knew I wasn’t authentic.

Embrace the rupture.

People start playing with things, instead of connecting with one another

Never be afraid to show up for someone else.

Nobody leaves the battlefield unscathed.

It’s on us to make sure that change happens in a way in which all people are heard, all people are represented.

Every single person in this city has the ability to make change.

Don't wait to be discovered.

Death is the salt of life.

What I have learned about making good images is that I’ve made a shit ton of bad images. But if I didn’t make that bad work, I wouldn’t know what good work was.

So, don't leave your mess behind...do your family a favor, clean out the stuff!

Who's got diaries? Not me anymore!

Funerals are a lot like weddings. Two big factors: one is sad. one is not. But, weddings you have a year to plan—funerals you have three days.

It always seems too early until it's too late...have conversations now.

We need to recognize that anything can happen...and when you think like that, you tend to find more joy in the moment, in daily life.

Say "death" out loud...we need to get over the fear and the language and have meaningful conversations while we can.

Death happens to be the biggest life transition that there is.

My love isn't lost, it's just transformed.

We are all here, able to drink coffee and mingle together, have a positive morning. And it's amazing. This is something to cherish right now, in this moment. It can be gone so fast...

This here is the first fully compostable, biodegradable six-pack ring that does not harm wildlife; it actually saves it.

Our society is set up this way, and it is nearly impossible to remove yourself from the equation.

Aim for the aftermath. What's that person going to say about you at the end after they have left your product or service?

We say hello all the time. We have enormously emotional hello's in our consumer experiences. But saying goodbye seems ridiculous to a product.

When do you reckon the first diagnosis of digital hoarding was..?

I was stunned with how deep it goes – what denial we're in around endings.

Your story is not the plot. Your story is how the plot changed you.

The best obituaries tell you about how someone changed throughout their life, as they were put up against small struggles [and] big struggles.

Stories are about how what happens affects someone with a difficult goal and how they change.

Who tells you when you're done? Who sits you down and says, "you've done enough, you've got it, your legacy is set, you're all good"?

I think a midlife crisis hits you whenever you sit down with yourself and think about it.

Your story is not the plot, your story is how the plot changed you.

Every act of creation is, in some way, fighting against the inevitability of death and loss.

“Death, a lot of times, we think of as a really sad, sorrowful thing, but death just means the end of one thing and the beginning of something new.”

The more you can see yourself as a collective and not as an individual… Actually, the more you go backwards in that one and not forward, is the less you'll be afraid in life of change, of adaptation, of things happening to you, and of dying. Because they're all the same.

Schlaf ist das Hineinkriechen des Menschen in sich selbst. Friedrich Hebbel

Wer morgens vor neun auf der Strasse anzutreffen ist, der ist nichts und wird nichts.

Comfort kills. Are you doing something on a daily basis that pushes you a little?

We get caught up a lot with trends and following trends, and its not necessarily like trends are bad, but when I think about what'll happen when I'm not here, and what I'll leave behind, its my images, its my work. If I follow trends I don't know what that says about me when I'm not here anymore.

But what I can tell you is that, for me, in my experience, the best work I've made is honest work, and the best portraits I've made come from a place of love.

While death is often something that is difficult to think about, we can cheat it through making art, because when we are not here, our art will be.

Death occurs in the midst of life.