Gersht Ori Quotes & Sayings

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. — Ori Gersht

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times. — Gayle Forman

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions. — Ori Gersht

I thanked everyone whose job it ever was to lay hands on the skin of strangers, and I gave general thanks that I was lying facedown in a warm puddle of soap and not a warm puddle of blood in some corner of this incomprehensible city. — Billy Collins

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic. — Ori Gersht

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. — Billy Bob Thornton

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree. — Ori Gersht

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. — Ori Gersht

Repentance means change: Change in what you think, change in what you desire, change in what you do and say. It is the evidence of authentic faith. — Colin S. Smith

I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic. — Ori Gersht

Money is not the master but the slave of a wise man. — Debasish Mridha

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region. — Hassan Nasrallah

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. — Ori Gersht

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism. — Ori Gersht

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse. — Ori Gersht