As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire to capture the unique beauty and intrigue of the world through photography.
Moby's quote reflects a deep appreciation for the diversity and complexity of the world around us. It suggests that as long as there are new and interesting things to observe, the act of photography remains a vital and fulfilling pursuit, allowing one to document and share the wonders of life.
In practice
A photographer using this quote to inspire their audience during a presentation about their work.
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
But when a manβs religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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