Alaina Huffman Quotes

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a period of personal turmoil. I am glad when people like my portfolio, but its aim is - or was - to keep me at peace.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.