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(To mark the publishing of Pearls From Artists* # 500, here is the very first PFA originally posted on August 15, 2012) Pearls from artists* # 1
* an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on.
And hopefully I will carry on, and develop it, because it is worthwhile. Carry on because it matters when other things don’t seem to matter so much: the money job, the editorial assignment, the fashion shoot. Then one day it will be complete enough to believe it is finished. Made. Existing. Done. And in its own way: a contribution, and all that effort and frustration and time and money will fall away. It was worth it, because it is something real, that didn’t exist before you made it exist: a sentient work of art and power and sensitivity. That speaks of this world and your fellow human beings’ place within it. Isn’t that beautiful?
Paul Graham, Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult
How prescient! Graham’s words are apropos of how I think about this blog nearly ten years after I started it!
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Top Instagram Posts for 2019
New Year’s Day is almost here so I decided to depart from the usual. Here are my most popular images posted on Instagram in 2019.

With Jenny Holzer – she’s waiving hello – at Rockefeller Center
Photo: Izzy Nova

Photo: Izzy Nova
Photo: Izzy Nova

More than 49,000 now!
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